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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body: Sinica Leidensia, cartea 149

Autor Xing Wang
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mar 2020
In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy (xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004429543
ISBN-10: 9004429549
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Sinica Leidensia


Notă biografică

Xing Wang obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai, and specializes in the study of Chinese divination and Chinese Buddhism

Recenzii

"This volume would be of immense use to those interested in Chinese religion. On a much broader level, this volume has the potential to be of immense use to those interested in general divination practices. In Wang’s own words, the understanding one will gain from this volume will “allowus to re- examine other kinds of techniques that have existed in different religions and social communities, as well as look at how religion, divination, and popular cultivation are techniques central to human life.”
– Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review 47/3 (2021).