Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42954-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 149, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Xing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Xing Wang obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai, and specializes in the study of Chinese divination and Chinese Buddhism