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portada Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.64 kg.
ISBN13
9789004429543
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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body

Xing Wang (Author) · Brill · Hardcover

Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body - Wang, Xing

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Synopsis "Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body"

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.

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