Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas

基本信息

Illustrated by:Siyu Chen

Format:Hardback 376 pages, 180 2-color illustrations

Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing

Imprint:Arcade Publishing

ISBN:9781950691388

Published:8 Jul 2021

Weight:1116g

Dimensions:254 x 178 x 30(mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

图文并茂的现代版中国古籍--为各地的神奇动物爱好者而作

《山海经》是为当代读者翻译的新版本，它既是一部古代世界的地理书，也是一部神话生物的动物寓言，还是一部文化和医药传说的书。该书通篇配有180多幅双色图画，这些图画蜿蜒曲折，活灵活现，是一部适合幻想和神话、古代知识、神奇的野兽和灵感艺术爱好者的作品。

这些生物来自已知世界的各个地区，来自山川和海洋、大荒地以及成为中国的海中之地。它们包括精神和神灵以及各种奇怪的生物--龙和凤凰，混血动物，有些具有人类特征，有些面目狰狞，或发出像劈柴一样的叫声，或预示着干旱或洪水或丰收；有些人的肉体可以治疗疾病或抵御噩梦，或其皮毛可以保证许多后代使用。

本书是中国两位千禧一代的作品，一位是曾被称为最年轻的“中国文化研究天才”的年轻学者和作家，另一位是在中国和美国接受培训的灵感插画家，他们设法与4000年历史的野兽的灵魂沟通，并带来了它的奇异之美。他们的作品已被西方重要的中国现代文学翻译家翻译成英文。

The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere

Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art.

The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures—dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny.

Drawn from The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China's millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies" and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West.

作者简介

孙见坤，曾被称为最年轻的 "中国文化研究天才"，现在是上海社会科学院历史研究所的研究生。他擅长研究《山海经》，曾以《山海经》论文获得复旦大学 "博雅杯 "全国论文大赛一等奖。他住在上海。

Jiankun Sun, once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies," is now a graduate student of the Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He excels in research on The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) and was a first-prize winner of Fudan University's Boya Cup national essay competition for his essay on The Classic of Mountains and Seas. He lives in Shanghai.

陈丝雨是一位自由插画师，她的灵感插画为这个新版本提供了火花。她毕业于北京清华大学，获得学士和硕士学位，然后在纽约的视觉艺术学院学习插画，并在那里获得了第二个硕士学位。她出版的书籍除了《山海经》外，还有《南方的歌》（《楚辞》）。她的插画作品被选入美国插画档案。她与她的丈夫和两个孩子住在德国。

Siyu Chen, whose inspired illustrations provided the spark for this new edition, is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing with bachelor's and master’s degrees, then studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she received her second master’s degree. Her published books include, besides Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing), Songs of the South (Chu Ci). Her illustration work has been selected for the American Illustration Archive. She lives in Germany with her husband and two children.

葛浩文（霍华德·戈德布拉特）是中国大陆和台湾众多当代中国小说作品的文学翻译家，其中包括诺贝尔奖获得者莫言，他的五部作品由Arcade出版。他还翻译了刘震云（《我没有杀死我的丈夫》、《厨师、骗子和房地产大亨》、《回忆1942》，这些作品由Arcade出版）、黄春明（《苹果的味道》）和陈若曦（《处决殷市长》）的作品。他教授中国现代文学和文化长达25年之久。他住在科罗拉多州的拉斐特市。

Howard Goldblatt is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction from mainland China and Taiwan, including Nobel Prize–winner Mo Yan, five of whose works are published by Arcade (The Garlic Ballads; The Republic of Wine; Big Breasts and Wide Hips; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh). He has also translated works by Liu Zhenyun (I Did Not Kill My Husband; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon; Remembering 1942, which are published by Arcade), Huang Chunming (The Taste of Apples), and Chen Ruoxi (The Execution of Mayor Yin). He taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado.