Richard J Smith

Mapping China and Managing the World

Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world, and will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780415685092
• ISBN-10: 0415685095
• Artikelnr.: 33382036

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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