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Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

Smith, Richard J.

Hardcover

Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

Chinese HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 0415685095
ISBN13: 9780415685092
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 19 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 variegated world, which they saw as encompassing all under Heaven.

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