On Chinese Divination by Dissecting Written Characters
Author : Johann Jacob Maria de Groot
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1890*
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Author : Johann Jacob Maria de Groot
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1890*
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Author : Anne Kathrin Schmiedl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004422374
In Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination, Anne Schmiedl analyses the historical development and linguistic properties of Chinese character manipulation, focusing on a late imperial work on this subject, the Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672).
Author : Richard J Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429710755
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.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900429970X
Literary Forms of Argument in Early China explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in China and the West. Drawing together the expertise of leading scholars of early Chinese textuality, this volume addresses this omission by examining the formal characteristics of an argument, the interrelationship between form and content, as well as patterned compositions and non-linear semantic utterances. With these comprehensive new readings, the volume makes a landmark contribution to the study of written thinking in early China. Contributors include: Wim De Reu, Joachim Gentz, Christoph Harbsmeier, Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer, Michael Nylan, Andrew H. Plaks, David Schaberg, Rudolf G. Wagner.
Author : Ho Peng Yoke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134430671
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 : J. Michael Farmer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791471647
Presents the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of historian and classicist Qiao Zhou.
Author : Henri Doré
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1917
Category : China
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Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804729689
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
Author : David C. Wright
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004489517
How did the Chinese in the 19th century deal with the enormous influx of Western science? What were the patterns behind this watershed in Chinese intellectual history? This work deals with those responsible for the translation of science, the major issues they were confronted with, and their struggles; the Chinese translators’ views of its overpowering influence on, and interaction with their own great tradition, those of the missionary-translators who used natural theology to propagate the Gospel, and those of John Fryer, a ‘secular missionary’, who founded the Shanghai Polytechnic and edited the Chinese Scientific Magazine. With due attention for the techniques of translation, the formation of new terms, the mechanisms behind the ‘struggle for survival’ between the, in this case, chemical terms, all amply illustrated at the hand of original texts. The final chapter charts the intellectual influence of Western science, the role of the scientific metaphor in political discourse, and the translation of science from a collection of mere ‘techniques’ to a source of political inspiration.
Author : Gilles Bibeau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110903016