Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521027496
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social history; Philosophy; History; History - General History; History: World; China; World - General; Ancient - General; Asia - China; Eastern; Cosmology, Chinese; History / China; History / World; History-Ancient - General; Philosophy-Eastern - General; Eastern - General
First sentence: Applying a structural analysis to ancient Chinese thought, both Angus Graham and Derk Bodde see the emergence of the Wuxing (Five Phases) system as the result of inserting centrality into older symmetry oppositions, which in turn caused a shift from four components to five, a phenomenon first seen in the texts of the fourth to second centuries B.C.