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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New approaches to Asian history ; 11
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New approaches to Asian history ; 11.
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| Summary |
"The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real significance of yinyang is, however, more complex and subtle. This brilliant and comprehensive analysis by one of the leading authorities in the field captures the richness and multiplicity of the meanings and applications of yinyang, including its visual presentations. Through a vast range of historical and textual sources, the book examines the scope and role of yinyang, the philosophical significance of its various layers of meanings and its relation to numerous schools and traditions within Chinese (and Western) philosophy. By putting yinyang on a secure and clear philosophical footing, the book roots the concept in the original Chinese idiom, distancing it from Western assumptions, frameworks and terms, yet also seeking to connect its analysis to shared cross-cultural philosophical concerns"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Yinyang; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Beyond Common Understandings of Yinyang; Lived Yinyang: A Multiplicity of Relations; Generation (Sheng) and Emergence; Harmony and Strategic Efficacy; Methods and Structure of Chapters; The Origins of Yinyang in Relation to the Sun; From the Terms Yin and Yang to Yinyang Thinking as a Paradigm; The Yinyang School; 2 Yinyang Cosmology: Dao, Qi, Yi, and Taiji; Yinyang in/with Dao and Myriad Things; The Oneness of Dao; Transformation, Spontaneity, and Order; Dao as Female Body. |
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Qi and YinyangYinyang and Modes of Change (the Yijing); Yinyang and the Development of Systematic Cosmology; 3 Yinyang Matrix: Organizing the World; Yinyang in Political Structure; Yinyang in Gender Relationships; Fengshui: Placing the Living and the Dead; Music and Art; 4 Yinyang Strategy: Efficacy in the World; Daoshu: Techniques of the Way; Xinshu: Techniques of the Heart/Mind; Yinyang Strategy: The Way of Ways; Yinyang Strategy, Factor I: The Timing of Heaven and the Benefits of Earthly Terrain; Yinyang Strategy Factor II: Yin as Background and Non-presence. |
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Application of Yinyang Strategy I: Yinyang Bingfa (Military Strategy)Application of Yinyang Strategy II: Charioteering; Application of Yinyang Strategy III: Sexual Practices; 5 Yinyang Body: Cultivation and Transformation; Yinyang Is a Spectrum Not an Entity; Yinyang as Relating Differences; Yinyang Interaction and Integration; Yinyang Movement and Transformation; Yinyang Quantification: Three Yin and Three Yang; Yinyang in Body Cultivation; Spirits/Souls; 6 Yinyang Symbol: Knowing Through Visual Presentation; Genealogy of the Yinyang Symbol. |
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Hetu and Luoshu (The River Diagram and Luo Writing)Shao Yong's Xiantian Xue (The Learning of Before Heaven); Zhou Dunyi's Taijitu; The Emergence of the Yinyang Symbol; Reading the Yinyang Symbol; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yin-yang.
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Yin-yang. |
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Philosophy, Chinese.
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Philosophy, Chinese. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wang, Robin. Yinyang. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107000155 (DLC) 2012012610 (OCoLC)781677264 |
| ISBN |
9781139525688 (electronic book) |
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1139525689 (electronic book) |
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9780511687075 (electronic book) |
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0511687079 (electronic book) |
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1139530356 (electronic book) |
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9781139530354 (electronic book) |
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9781107000155 |
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1107000157 |
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9780521165136 |
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052116513X |
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