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Richard J. Smith

Mapping China and Managing the World

Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

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From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China's highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and a number of comprehensive systems for classifying every form of human achievement, as well as all natural and supernatural phenomena. Richard J. Smith's Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on several crucial devices employed by the Chinese for understanding and ordering their vast and… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-415-68510-8
  • EAN: 9780415685108
  • Produktnummer: 11233375
  • Verlag: Taylor and Francis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 476 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 476

Über den Autor


Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, USA

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