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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body (Hardcover)
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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body (Hardcover)
Series: Sinica Leidensia, 149
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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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