Physiognomy in Ming China : fortune and the body
by Xing Wang.
Bok Engelsk 2020
| Omfang | 325 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "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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| Geografisk emneord | Kina : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01955
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| ISBN | 9789004429543
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