chapters
- Introduction to The Mythic Chinese Unicorn
- Earliest Pictographic Evidence for the Zhi
- The Animal Represented in the Zhi Pictograph
- Later Evolution of Chinese Characters
- The Unicorn Zhi and the Law
- The Tibetan Unicorn
- Images of Zhi in the Shang Dynasty
- Earliest Pictorial Evidence for the Zhi
- The Confusion about the Lin
- Auspicious Animals in Han Dynasty Art
- The Zhi Becomes a Tomb Door Guardian
- Three-Dimensional Images of Unicorn Zhi
- The Real Unicorn Elasmotherium
- Dragon’s Bones and Dragon’s Teeth
- The Transformation of the Unicorn Zhi
- The Rhinoceros in Ancient China
- Ancient Uses of Rhinoceros Horn
- Rhinoceros Horn and the Poisonfeather Bird
- Early Maritime Trade in Rhino Horn
- The Cinnamon Route
- The Tastes of Paradise
- The Mythic Rhinoceros-Unicorn
- The Magic of the Horn
- Ge Hong’s Ideas and their Influence
- The Designs on the Horn
- The Spirit Rhinoceros-Unicorn Xiniu
- The Ancient Trade in Narwhal Horn
- Narwhal Horn Becomes Magical
- Summary and Conclusion