1st Edition
Mapping China and Managing the World Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
By Richard J. Smith
Copyright 2013
288 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order ( zhi ). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and a number of comprehensive systems for... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Languages of the Yijing and the Representation of Reality 3. Mapping China’s World: Cultural Cartography in Late Imperial China 4. Ritual in Qing Culture 5. The Teachings of Ritual and the Rectification of Customs: Echos of Tradition in the Political Culture of Modern China 6. Divination in Qing Culture 7. Jesuit Interpretations of the Yijing in Global Perspective
Biography
Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, USA
