The Mythical Zoo in Chinese

I am thrilled to see my book The Mythical Zoo out in Chinese translation, my third book to be published in that language. It is part of a series published by the Chinese Mythological Association with Shaanxi Normal University Press, other volumes of which are devoted to Chinese, Celtic, Australian, and Japanese Myth.

At times, I get a little tired of being me. I also, from time to time, get the feeling that "me" might not be who I really am. My books, particularly those in translation, are a sort of alternative self, a person that, had I just lived in a slightly different sort of cosmos, I might have been. They have their own lives. They can go places where I cannot go. They can say things that I would never say, and meet people with whom I would never associate. Somewhere, there is a Chinese "me," and all that I can do is wish him well.
The Mythical Zoo: Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature
神话学文库·神话动物园：神话、传说与文学中的动物 平