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The Identification of the Chinese Phoenix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

M. U. Hachisuka
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All those acquainted with Chinese art and literature are familiar with two fabulous birds, known in Chinese as Fêng-huang and Luan and in Japanese as Ho-ow and Luan respectively. Not very appropriately the name Phœnix has been given to the former in Western nomenclature.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , October 1924 , pp. 585 - 589
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1924

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