Physiognomy in Ming China : fortune and the body /

Physiognomy in Ming China : fortune and the body /

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Author / Creator:	Wang, Xing, 1989- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description:	vi, 325 pages : illustrations color ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 149 Sinica Leidensia ; v. 149.
Subject:	Fortune-telling -- China -- History. Physiognomy -- China -- History. Divination. Physiognomy. China. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12414100

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ISBN:	9789004429543 9004429549 9789004429550
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and index.
Summary:	"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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