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Unlocking the Chinese Gate: Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China - Couverture souple

Dor, Galia

 
9781438497525: Unlocking the Chinese Gate: Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1438497520 ISBN 13 : 9781438497525
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Offers an innovative analysis of gates-as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs-in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives-including philosophy, architecture, and psychology-and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the "ten thousand" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside (wai/nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied-including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of "decision-gating" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Galia Dor received her doctorate in East Asian Studies from Tel Aviv University, where she has lectured on Chinese and Japanese philosophy, art, and material culture.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438497520
ISBN 13 
9781438497525
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
322
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