..., there is no work of history dedicated to documenting the ensuing exodus from Luoyang to Jiankang. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 biography divination Guo Pu Jin dynasty Jinshu migration Shishuo xinyu Soushen ji zhiguai Southern Dynasties In the early...

... themselves into birds are forced into marriage by men who steal their feathered garb). While one story from the Soushen ji fits into this category, the other examples are tangential at best. These include the legendary Chang'e, a mother who can turn into a turtle, and a woman who is really a gibbon...

... occurrences in a matter-of-fact manner. 15 The early medieval period saw a proliferation of such works; a well-known specimen is the southern author Gan Bao's 干寶 (d. 336) Soushen ji 搜神記, translated as In Search of the Supernatural . 16 However, YML differs sharply from its famous predecessor...

... Chen al. 1986 . Beijing : Beijing daxue . Shiyi ji , ed. Zhiping Qi . 1981 . Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Shuihu zhuan huipingben [Shuihu zhuan with Collected Commentaries], 1981 . Beijing : Beijing daxue . Soushen hou ji ed. Shaoying Wang . 1981 . Beijing...

..., with the addition of one Fan Juqing {Daofa huiyuan 236:4a b). The Five Emperor-Commissioners also appear in the Soushen ji, which tells of the appearance in the sky offivemartial figures in 591. The Sui emperor is told that they are five demons of pestilence. To avert the danger, the emperor gives them each...