The Flood Myths of Early China

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The Flood Myths of Early China by Lewis, Mark Edward, 9780791466643
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  • ISBN: 9780791466643 | 0791466647
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 6/1/2006

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Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481-221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC-AD 220) China.
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