Deborah Lynn Porter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contextualizing the Text: The Discovery, Compilation, Transmission, and Traditional Appreciation of the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan
2. See Yü Later: A New Interpretation of Chinese Flood Myths
3. Toward an Aesthetic of Symbol in Early Chinese Thought
4. Symbolic Foundations of the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan:K'un-lun, Ho-tsung, and Hsi-wang-mu
5. The Generation of Symbolism in the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan
6. Heaven's Text and the Invention of Fictional Discourse in China
Appendix
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