Humanistic Animals: Animal Symbols and Chinese Culture: Animal Symbols and Chinese Culture

Author: Yao Lijiang
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book discusses the humanistic functions and cultural symbolic meanings of over thirty animals, providing a rational perspective and scientific summary of the role, significance, and patterns of animals in the construction of ancient Chinese culture, in order to reveal the interdependent relationship between humans and animals in a cultural sense.