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Since the publication of Charles Gould’s ‘Mythical Monsters’ in 1886, and Grafton Elliott Smith’s ‘The Evolution of the Dragon’ in 1919, the fact that the dragon is a worldwide phenomenon has gradually been commonly recognized in academic discourse. Therefore, it is not surprising that the dragon has become a universal and interdisciplinary issue, and that the establishment of dragonology in its own right has been taken for granted.
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Chen, H. (2018). The Metaphor of the Dragon in Chinese Culture. In: Bilstein, J., Westphal, K. (eds) Tiere - Pädagogisch-anthropologische Reflexionen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13787-8_15
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