Mackenzie gathers the myths and legends of the Far East — dragon lore, bird and serpent myths, the Peach Tree of Immortality, the Weaving Maiden of the stars, Taoist and Buddhist paradises, Japanese gods and heroes — and sets them within a broad argument that Chinese and Japanese civilisation absorbed ideas carried from far away by ancient mariners and traders.
A rich storehouse of East Asian legend, though its diffusionist theories belong to the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.