Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China : the Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han /
"Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or "knowledge of good and bad days."...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 4, China ;
volume 33 |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Maps, Tables, Figures, and Plates; Acknowledgments; Tables 0.1-0.9; Map 0.1; Introduction; Hemerology; Technical Occult and Scientific Literature; Codicology of Daybook Manuscripts; Daybook Studies and Ancient Chinese Hemerology; Conventions Used in this Volume; Chinese Terms and Translations; Latin, Medieval Vernacular, and Cuneiform Sources; Chinese Conceptual Terms and Hemerological Terminology; Chapter 1 Daybooks in Archaeological Context; Daybooks in Tombs; Manuscript Sources; A Phenomenon Embedded in Time and Widely Diffused; First Hypotheses; The Four Tombs
- Jiudian Tomb 56Fangmatan Tomb 1; Shuihudi Tomb 11; Kongjiapo Tomb 8; Other Tombs Containing Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts; Manuscripts in Tombs; Conditions of Preservation; A Marginal Phenomenon; The Mingqi Question; What Types of Manuscripts?; Who Was Involved?; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Daybooks: A Type of Popular Hemerological Manual of the Warring States, Qin, and Han; Content and Defining Features of Daybooks; Overview of Fully Published Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts; Manuscripts of the Daybook Text Type; Daybook-Related Manuscripts
- Hemerological Slips, Slip Fragments, and Tablets Discovered at Han Sites in the NorthwestUnpublished or Partially Published Hemerological Material; Comparison of Daybooks to Related Technical Literature in Excavated Manuscripts; Daybooks and Other Hemerological Texts; Daybooks and Calendars; Daybooks as One among Multiple Sources of Technical Occult Knowledge; Daybooks from the Perspective of the Bibliographic Treatise of the Book of Han; "Tianwen" (Heaven Patterns); "Lipu" (Calendars and Chronologies); "Wuxing" (Five Agents); "Shigui" (Milfoil and Turtle); "Zazhan" (Miscellaneous Divination)
- "Xingfa" (Form Structures)Daybooks and Later Hemerological Texts; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Daybooks in the Context of Manuscript Culture and Popular Culture Studies; Hemerology and Hemerological Literature through the Lens of Late Han Historiography; Makers and Users of Daybooks; Literacy; Who Made Daybooks?; The Form and Function of Daybook Manuscripts; Making the Manuscript and Textual Strategies; Writing the Text and Lexical Strategies; Daybooks in Everyday Life; The "Spellbinding" Prologue; The Pace of Yu; Orphan-Empty Hemerology; Hemerology and Cultural Memory; Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Hemerology and Prediction in the Daybooks: Ideas and PracticesDaily Activities and Life Expectations in the Daybooks; General Hemerologies; Topical Hemerologies; Predictions and Predictive Systems; The World of Rishu: Representation and Reality; Techniques and Systems; The Year Cycle and Its Subdivisions; The Sexagenary Cycle; The Twenty-Eight Stellar Lodges; The Five Agents; Day Qualifiers; Diagrams; Conclusion; Supplement 4.1; Supplement 4.2; Supplement 4.3; Supplement 4.4; Supplement 4.5; Chapter 5 Daybooks and the Spirit World; The Spirit World; Levels of the Spirit World
