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Mapping China and managing the world : culture, cartography and cosmology in late imperial times /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Critical Asian scholarship ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The languages of the Yijing and the representation of reality
  • Mapping China's world : cultural cartography in late imperial China
  • Ritual in Qing culture
  • The teachings of ritual and the rectification of customs : echos of tradition in the political culture of modern China
  • Divination in the Qing
  • Jesuit interpretations of the Yijing in global perspective.