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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Workshop on Divination and Portent Interpretation in Ancient China written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429710755
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Fortune-tellers and Philosophers written by Richard J Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology, numerology, physiognomy, the analysis of written characters, meteorological divination, the use of mediums (including spirit-writing), and dream interpretation. As he explains the pervasiveness and tenacity of divination in China, the author explores not only the connections between various mantic techniques but also the relationship between divination and other facets of Chinese culture, including philosophy, science and medicine. He discusses the symbolism of divination, its aesthetics, its ritual aspects, and its psychological and social significance, pointing out that in traditional China divination helped to order the future, just as history helped to order the past, and rituals the present.
Author : Anne Behnke Kinney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747318
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China written by Anne Behnke Kinney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in any language to inquire into the emergence of childhood as a topic of significant cultural attention in Han times, as expressed in the intellectual discourse surrounding early Chinese cosmology, medicine, law, statecraft, and dynastic history.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521327275
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)
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Author : Ho Peng Yoke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113443068X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Chinese Mathematical Astrology written by Ho Peng Yoke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs. Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.
Author : Mu-chou Poo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841630X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
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Author : American Council of Learned Societies
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Author : Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076466
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Shamanism [2 volumes] written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Author : Edward L. Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823986
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Society and the Supernatural in Song China written by Edward L. Davis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establishment of Confucian orthodoxy, Edward Davis demonstrates the renewed vitality of the dynasty's Taoist, Buddhist, and local religious traditions. He charts the rise of hundreds of new temple-cults and the lineages of clerical exorcists and vernacular priests; the increasingly competitive interaction among all practitioners of therapeutic ritual; and the wide social range of their patrons and clients.
Author : Östasiatiska museet
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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Author : Joseph Needham
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Total Pages : 642 pages
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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Author : Richard Alan Kunst
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Total Pages : 608 pages
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Author : John Blofeld
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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Author : Denis Twitchett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521243278
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220 written by Denis Twitchett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-26 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from Asia, Europe, and America have contributed chapters that convey a realistic impression of significant political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social developments, and of the contacts that the Chinese made with other peoples at this time. As the book is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, technical details are given in both Chinese terms and English equivalents. References lead to primary sources and their translations and to secondary writings in European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese.
