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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 4, China ; volume 33
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or "knowledge of good and bad days." Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study of popular culture. Eleven scholars have contributed chapters examining the daybooks from different perspectives, detailing their significance as manuscript-objects intended for everyday use and showing their connection to almanacs still popular in Chinese communities today as well as to hemerological literature in medieval Europe and ancient Babylon. Contributors include: Marianne Bujard, László Sándor Chardonnens, Christopher Cullen, Donald Harper, Marc Kalinowski, Li Ling, Liu Lexian, Ala."--Provided by publisher. |
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Intro; Contents; List of Maps, Tables, Figures, and Plates; Acknowledgments; Tables 0.1-0.9; Map 0.1; Introduction; Hemerology; Technical Occult and Scientific Literature; Codicology of Daybook Manuscripts; Daybook Studies and Ancient Chinese Hemerology; Conventions Used in this Volume; Chinese Terms and Translations; Latin, Medieval Vernacular, and Cuneiform Sources; Chinese Conceptual Terms and Hemerological Terminology; Chapter 1 Daybooks in Archaeological Context; Daybooks in Tombs; Manuscript Sources; A Phenomenon Embedded in Time and Widely Diffused; First Hypotheses; The Four Tombs |
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Jiudian Tomb 56Fangmatan Tomb 1; Shuihudi Tomb 11; Kongjiapo Tomb 8; Other Tombs Containing Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts; Manuscripts in Tombs; Conditions of Preservation; A Marginal Phenomenon; The Mingqi Question; What Types of Manuscripts?; Who Was Involved?; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Daybooks: A Type of Popular Hemerological Manual of the Warring States, Qin, and Han; Content and Defining Features of Daybooks; Overview of Fully Published Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts; Manuscripts of the Daybook Text Type; Daybook-Related Manuscripts |
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Hemerological Slips, Slip Fragments, and Tablets Discovered at Han Sites in the NorthwestUnpublished or Partially Published Hemerological Material; Comparison of Daybooks to Related Technical Literature in Excavated Manuscripts; Daybooks and Other Hemerological Texts; Daybooks and Calendars; Daybooks as One among Multiple Sources of Technical Occult Knowledge; Daybooks from the Perspective of the Bibliographic Treatise of the Book of Han; "Tianwen" (Heaven Patterns); "Lipu" (Calendars and Chronologies); "Wuxing" (Five Agents); "Shigui" (Milfoil and Turtle); "Zazhan" (Miscellaneous Divination) |
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"Xingfa" (Form Structures)Daybooks and Later Hemerological Texts; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Daybooks in the Context of Manuscript Culture and Popular Culture Studies; Hemerology and Hemerological Literature through the Lens of Late Han Historiography; Makers and Users of Daybooks; Literacy; Who Made Daybooks?; The Form and Function of Daybook Manuscripts; Making the Manuscript and Textual Strategies; Writing the Text and Lexical Strategies; Daybooks in Everyday Life; The "Spellbinding" Prologue; The Pace of Yu; Orphan-Empty Hemerology; Hemerology and Cultural Memory; Conclusion |
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Chapter 4 Hemerology and Prediction in the Daybooks: Ideas and PracticesDaily Activities and Life Expectations in the Daybooks; General Hemerologies; Topical Hemerologies; Predictions and Predictive Systems; The World of Rishu: Representation and Reality; Techniques and Systems; The Year Cycle and Its Subdivisions; The Sexagenary Cycle; The Twenty-Eight Stellar Lodges; The Five Agents; Day Qualifiers; Diagrams; Conclusion; Supplement 4.1; Supplement 4.2; Supplement 4.3; Supplement 4.4; Supplement 4.5; Chapter 5 Daybooks and the Spirit World; The Spirit World; Levels of the Spirit World |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Divination -- China -- History -- Sources.
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Divination. |
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China. |
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History. |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General. |
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Volkskultur. |
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Vergöttlichung. |
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Hemerologion. |
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China. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Harper, Donald John, editor.
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Kalinowski, Marc, editor.
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| Added Title |
Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004310193 (DLC) 2017024435 |
| ISBN |
9004349316 |
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9789004349315 (electronic book) |
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9789004310193 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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