Mineke Schipper, Ye Shuxian, and Yin Hubin.
China’s Creation and Origin Myths. Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions.

How did the world begin, how and why were the first people created? No less than myths in other parts of the world China's creation and origin myths explain how man created order out of chaos, and imposed culture on nature. Cross-cultural approaches to myth make us aware of the limitations of our own familiar classifications. This book makes a provocative case for the comparative study of the hidden treasures of China’s oral and written myth traditions in different languages and cultures, a legacy generously left behind by singers, storytellers, poets, and writers. This book opens new doors to the study of Chinese mythologies, a surprising and so far almost unknown world outside China.