Chinese Unicorn

Pages

• book
  • About
  • Chronology of China
  • China’s Administrative Districts
  • Selected Bibliography
  • chapters
    • 1. Introduction to the Mythic Chinese Unicorn
    • 2. Earliest Pictographic Evidence for the Zhi
    • 3. The Animal Represented in the Zhi Pictograph: Saola
    • 4. Later Evolution of Chinese Characters
    • 5. The Unicorn Zhi and the Law
    • 6. The ‘Tibetan Unicorn’
    • 7. Images of Zhi in the Shang Dynasty
    • 8. Earliest Pictorial Evidence for the Zhi
    • 9. The Confusion about the Lin
    • 10. Auspicious Animals in Han Art
    • 11. The Zhi Becomes a Tomb Door Guardian
    • 12. Three-Dimensional Images of Unicorn Zhi
    • 13. The Real Unicorn Elasmotherium
    • 14. Dragon’s Bones and Dragon’s Teeth
    • 15. The Transformation of the Unicorn
    • 16. The Rhinoceros in Ancient China
    • 17. The Ancient Uses of Rhinoceros Horn
    • 18. Rhinoceros Horn and the Poisonfeather Bird
    • 19. Early Maritime Trade in Rhino Horn
    • 20. The Cinnamon Route
    • 21. The Tastes of Paradise
    • 22. The Mythic Rhinoceros-Unicorn
    • 23. The Magic of the Horn
    • 24. Ge Hong’s Ideas and Their Influence
    • 25. The Designs on the Horn
    • 26. The Spirit- Rhinoceros-Unicorn Xiniu
    • 27. The Ancient Trade in Narwhal Horn
    • 28. Narwhal Horn Becomes Magical
    • 29. Summary and Conclusion
  • Front matter
    • Preface
    • About this book
    • dedication