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THE MYTH THAT CHINA HAS NO CREATION MYTH
Abstract
It is often averred, as one of the prime differences between China and the West, that China has no myths of cosmogony. One of the earliest examples is a remark by the missionary E.J. Eitel (1838-1908) from 1879: The idea of creation out of nothing has ever remained entirely foreign to the Chinese mind, so much so that there is no word in the language to express the idea of creation ex nihilo.1 Over time, claims about the lack of Chinese creation myths have only become more inflated. Take the view of Derk Bodde:
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The claim that the Chinese were unique in lacking a creation story is false.
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From The Cosmos as Creative Mind: Spontaneous Arising, Generating, and Creating in the Heng Xian (2013) · cites this paper as Goldin 2008
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Metadata
- Authors
- Goldin, P. R.
- Corresponding author
- Goldin, Paul R.
- Venue
- Monumenta Serica
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-12
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-22
- ISSN
- 0254-9948 (ISSN-L)
- 2057-1690
- OpenAlex
- W2088297292
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Monumenta Serica (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Keywords
- cosmogony, creation ex nihilo, Chinese mythology, Chinese-Western comparison
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