Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521624206
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Philosophy; Eastern - General; Politics and government; Ancient State; Cosmology; History - General History; Metaphysics; History: World; China; History & Theory - General; Ancient - General; Asia - China; Eastern; History / World; To 221 B.C; Political culture; World - General; Cosmology, Chinese
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.