The animal and the daemon in early China /

The animal and the daemon in early China /

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Author / Creator:Sterckx, Roel, 1969-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 375 pages)
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Subject:
Human-animal relationships -- China.
Animals and civilization -- China.
Animals and civilization.
Human-animal relationships.
China.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158704
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ISBN:9780791489154
0791489159
9780791452691
0791452697
0791452700
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index.
Summary:Annotation Sterckx (Chinese studies, U. of Cambridge) is not interested in the same sort of animals as zoo-historians, archaeologists, fabulists, or literary critics, but in the perceptions of animals and the animal world as a signifying exponent of the world of thought in Warring States and early imperial China. He uses animals as windows into early Chinese views of the world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Other form:Print version: Sterckx, Roel, 1969- Animal and the daemon in early China. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002
Table of Contents:
  • The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Contextualizing Animals
  • The Animal and the Daemon
  • Animals as Images
  • 1. Defining Animals
  • Problems of Definition
  • Animals in Texts
  • Naming Animals and Animal Names
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Animals and Officers
  • Managing Animals
  • Ritual Animals
  • Animals and Spirits
  • Calendrical Animals
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Categorizing Animals
  • Qi and Blood
  • Yinyang and the Five Phases: Correlative Taxonomies
  • Toward a Moral Taxonomy
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The Animal and Territory.
  • Animal Patterns as Social Patterns
  • Animals and Territory
  • Animals beyond Territory
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Transforming the Beasts
  • Animals and the Origins of Music
  • Animals, Music, and Moral Transformation
  • The Transformation of Animals through Virtue
  • Moral Hybrids
  • "Speaking with Birds and Beasts"
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Changing Animals
  • A Cosmogony of Change
  • Demonic Transformations
  • Functional Metamorphosis
  • Autonomous Transformations
  • Symbolic Metamorphosis
  • Portentous Transformations
  • Metamorphosing Agents
  • Critique of Change
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Strange Animals.
  • Defining the Strange
  • Interpreting the Strange
  • Confucius Names the Beasts
  • When the Grackos Nest in Lu
  • The Dog as Daemon
  • The Capture of the White Unicorn
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z.

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