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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxvi, 589 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781139017466 (ebook)

Inhalt: The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field, illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art, architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late imperial period.

Anmerkung: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Part One. Astronomy and cosmology in the time of dragons -- Part Two. Aligning with heaven -- Part Three. Planetary omens and cosmic ideology -- Part Four. Warring states and Han astral portentology -- Part Five. One with the sky.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: ISBN 9781107006720

Sprache: Englisch

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139017466

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139017466

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 589 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9781139017466

Inhalt: The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field, illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art, architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late imperial period

Inhalt: Part One. Astronomy and cosmology in the time of dragons -- Part Two. Aligning with heaven -- Part Three. Planetary omens and cosmic ideology -- Part Four. Warring states and Han astral portentology -- Part Five. One with the sky

Anmerkung: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781107006720

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781107539013

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pankenier, David W. Astrology and cosmology in early China Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 9781107006720

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781107539013

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): China ; Astrologie

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139017466

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Umfang: Online-Ressource (618 p)

Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.

ISBN: 9781107006720

Inhalt: Drawing on a vast array of scholarship, this pioneering text illustrates how profoundly astronomical phenomena shaped ancient Chinese civilization

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology of early China; Introduction; Part One Astronomy and cosmology in the time of dragons; 1 Astronomy begins at Taosi; Astronomy and the "Spirit Terrace"; Structural features; Practical considerations; Yaoshan and Huiguanshan solar altars; Other spirit terrace observations; 2 Watching for dragons; Dragons in the formative period; Duke Zhao, twenty-ninth year (513 BCE); Astronomy and the harnessing of dragons; The celestial Dragon as astral indicator, chen; A naturalistic origin for the Chinese dragon , An eccentric dragonConclusion; Part Two Aligning with Heaven; 3 Looking to the Supernal Lord; Taiyi and Northern Culmen; The virtue of nothing; The Northern Dipper and the imperial power; Seasonal timekeeping and the Northern Dipper; Bronze Age antecedents; Migration of the Pole; A handoff of pole stars; On the origin of the character Di "(Supernal) Lord"; The role of the Supernal Lord; An Egyptian parallel; Paleographic and linguistic evidence; Conclusion; 4 Bringing Heaven down to Earth; Alignments and misalignments; City building in the earliest sources; "When Ding Had Just Culminated" , Bringing down the PoleYingshi-Dongbi as "Heavenly Temple"; The alignment function of asterism Ding; Ding "right and true"; To divine (zhen ) and cauldron (ding ); Conclusion; 5 Astral revelation and the origins of writing; Calendrical notation as a cultural imperative; Stems and branches in the calendar; Visuographic recording before writing; Calendrical use of the cyclical signs; Finding inspiration in the sky; Visuographic depiction of astronomical phenomena: heshu and luotu; Part Three Planetary omens and cosmic ideology; 6 The cosmo-political mandate , Astronomical phenomena and their correlation with political dynastiesFrom one to three - from history to "prehistory"; Critical objections; Early antecedents of "Five Elemental Phases" correlations; Dynastic changes of Elemental Phase; 7 The rhetoric of the supernal; Heaven's Mandate; The Supernal Lord's planetary minions; Shang and Zhou contrasts; A Han Dynasty retrospective interpretation; 8 Cosmology and the calendar; The separation of Heaven and Earth; Mismanagement of the calendar; Evolution of Shang theology; Part Four Warring States and Han astral portentology , 9 Astral prognostication and the Battle of ChengpuHistorical accounts of Duke Wen of Jin's ascendancy; Theory of field-allocation astrology; Principles of field-allocation astrology; Derivation of relevant astrological correspondences; The Sky River as cosmographic divide; Jupiter in applied field-allocation astrology: Zuozhuan examples; The Discourses of the States account of Duke Wen's restoration; Correlation of political and military activity with celestial phenomena; Astrological parallelism in two accounts in Discourses of the States; Conclusion , Appendix: timeline of Duke Wen of Jin's restoration and events surrounding the Battle of Chengpu (March 12, 632 BCE)

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781107291126

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781107006720

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Astrology and Cosmology in Early China : Conforming Earth to Heaven

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books

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Umfang: 1 online resource (617 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 9781107290075 (e-book)

Anmerkung: part one. Astronomy and cosmology in the time of dragons -- part two. Aligning with Heaven -- part three. Planetary omens and cosmic ideology -- part four. Warring states and Han astral portentology -- part five. One with the sky.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Pankenier, David W. Astrology and cosmology in early China : conforming earth to heaven. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 9781107006720

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

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