Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

ISBN-13: 9780415685092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Richard J. Smith

Opis

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China's bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural and supernatural phenomena. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order (zhi) and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, USA