Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-17753-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1009 g

Reihe: Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia

How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China.
It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one’s and the other’s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santangelo, Paolo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Paolo Santangelo is Professor of East Asian History at Rome “Sapienza” University. He has published extensively on the social and anthropological history of pre-modern and modern China and is editor of the Journal MING QING yanjiu.