Xing Wang, "Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body "
English | ISBN: 9004429549 | 2020 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 9004429549 | 2020 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique xiangshu (physiognomy), and investigates its unique somatic cosmology in Ming religious and intellectual context.