Physiognomy in Ming China :: fortune and the body /

"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 an...

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1. Verfasser: Wang, Xing, 1989- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Schriftenreihe:Sinica Leidensia ; 149.
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004429550
9004429557
9004429549
9789004429543

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