The Nine Songs were composed in the third century BC and have long been recognized by the Chinese as having Shamanic origins. They throw light on a form of religion widely spread throughout the Far East, as well as being of striking beauty as poetry. In this small book Arthur Waley has translated the poems with a commentary that tells of the various deities the Shamans served, and in an introduction he provides a general account of Shamanism in early China.
- ISBN10 0044405006
- ISBN13 9780044405009
- Publish Date 21 September 1989 (first published December 1955)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Thorsons
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English