Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people’s encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns in the land of the dead; eerily significant dreams; and uncannily accurate premonitions. The selection of such stories presented here provides an alluring introduction to early medieval Chinese storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted world of thought, culture, and religious belief of that era. Known as zhiguai, or “accounts of anomalies,” they convey a great deal about how people saw the cosmos and their place in it. The tales were circulated because they were entertaining but also because their compilers meant to document the mysterious workings of spirits, the wonders of exotic places, and the nature of the afterlife.
A collection of more than two hundred tales, A Garden of Marvels offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to zhiguai writings, particularly those never before translated or adequately researched. This volume will likely find its way to bedside tables as well as into classrooms and libraries, just as collections of zhiguai did in early medieval times.

Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange."Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit-world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology. This genre of writing came to be known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies").
Who were the authors of these books, and why did they write of these "strange" matters? Why was such writing seen as a compelling thing to do? In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai genre in its formative period, Campany sets forth a new view of the nature of the genre and the reasons for its emergence. He shows that contemporaries portrayed it as an extension of old royal and imperial traditions in which strange reports from the periphery were collected in the capital as a way of ordering the world. He illuminates how authors writing from most of the religious and cultural perspectives of the times--including Daoists, Buddhists, Confucians, and others--used the genre differently for their own persuasive purposes, in the process fundamentally altering the old traditions of anomaly-collecting. Analyzing the "accounts of anomalies" both in the context of Chinese religious and cultural history and as examples of a cross-culturally attested type of discourse, Campany combines in-depth Sinological research with broad-ranging comparative thinking in his approach to these puzzling, rich texts

大宗教への飛躍と確立――。仏教伝来のインパクトを受け体系化する道教。中国固有の思想との相克のなか、融合はいかになされたのか。霊宝経から坐忘論まで、生み出された経典・儀礼・聖像等を通して、六朝隋唐時代におけるダイナミックな展開を描き出す労作。

在六朝江南社会，“山中”这一地理空间发生了巨大的变迁。随着佛教山寺的兴起、道教洞天体系和山中修道的宫观化，一些山岳成为寺馆集中的宗教圣地，江南山岳完成“名山化”的过程，文化景观呈现出独特的面貌和地理格局。作者立足山岳，全面搜集正史以外的宗教文献、文学作品、石刻史料等，打通佛道二教，透过若干个案的“深描”，细腻地展现了山岳历史自身的发展脉络（从山神祭祀到佛道寺馆的过程），佛道与民间信仰在山岳中活动的复杂关系。名山，特别是江南洞天福地的出现与山中景观的变迁，因此得到了鲜活而饱满的解释。六朝时代，乃至秦到隋唐历史演进的丰富内涵与时代意义，从而更完整地呈现在读者面前。

杂传又称别传，区别于正史中的传记，往往杂有不经之谈，后世演化为传奇小说。整理者竭十余年心力，对盛行于汉魏六朝的杂传作了全面搜罗，汇集三百余种，为研治古代小说、中古文学甚至明清小说戏剧的重要参考书。
编辑推荐
一、辑佚全面。作者全面地辑录了从两汉到六朝见于史书、类书、史注的杂传，并能将同一条目之各书引文尽数搜罗，互为比勘，使佚文校录臻于完善。
二、编次合理。是书把完整篇段、零章短句均汇集于一人之下，加以编次，读者自可从中可以看出关于传主的材料、传说、史实，部次清晰而学术价值自明。
三、辨伪准确。史料传承时，出现的讹误、伪作，作者均能一一辨之，去伪存真，得其本原。
四、校勘精审。作者在辑录的时候，能够汇集众本，校异同，择善而从。
五、体例全面。每一人之传，标有传名、题注、作者，正文后必要时还附有述评，便于研究者使用。
内容简介
《汉魏六朝杂传集》（全四册），辑录了起西汉之始（公元前206年）讫隋亡（公元618年）的整个汉魏六朝时期的杂传作品，共分为两汉杂传、三国杂传、两晋杂传、南北朝杂传，凡三百余种，洋洋一百余万言，整个汉魏六朝时期有佚文存世的杂传作品，几乎囊括无遗。同时，《汉魏六朝杂传集》辑录杂传，篇名之下均置题注，扼述该传之历代著录、补录情况。如有旧辑本，亦说明其见载之处及得失善劣。又略及作者之生平著述，传主之生平行事。其有歧疑者，则参纳古今学者之研究，稍事考辨。所辑得的每一种杂传之佚文，均略据所叙人事，分条罗列，并于其下注明出处，书名、卷数俱列全称。至如征引之题名同异，亦一一列举，不厌其烦。凡一事而见诸多处征引者，则以某引为本，校以他引，择善而从，或同或异，或补或删或改，均出校语，条列其下。差异较大者及其他需特别说明者，则加案语，附各条之后。辑录所据之本，均以历代精校、精刻、精印之善本为主，并参校其他传本。古籍旧注尤重汉魏六朝及近于汉魏六朝之书，类书则多以南北朝唐宋所出为主，明清类书亦采，资证而已。如某传有前代辑本，亦取作参考，体例科学。

东晋习凿齿撰《襄阳耆旧记》五卷。是一部关于襄阳人物、山川、城邑的重要历史文献。可补汉末、三国以及晋代史书的遗缺。此书元明之际已无完本，虽经清人校勘辑补，但讹脱尚多。此书作者黄惠贤在前人的基础上，做了大量辑佚校勘工作。对于人物补充五人，删去二人，连同山川、城邑、牧守，增加了一百六十一条，并考订其他辑本出误入习书者十五条。是目前能见到的最好的辑本。此书原由中州古籍出版社于一九八七年出版，后再无重印。此次作者同意交给中华书局，以竖排繁体整理本的方式出版，并加以修订，纳入史学基本典籍丛刊。

中国の三大宗教の一つである道教は、六朝期以降、儒仏二教との相互交渉のなかでダイナミックに思想を発展させた。その豊かな営為を、「道気論」の展開、天界や救済をめぐる教理体系の構築、三論学派等の仏教教理との関係、唐玄宗朝における『老子』解釈などを主題に論じる。道教思想史研究を牽引する著者による待望の論文集。