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Unlocking the Chinese Gate: Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China

Unlocking the Chinese Gate: Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China

Dor, Galia

Hardcover

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Chinese HistoryTaoism

ISBN10: 1438497539
ISBN13: 9781438497532
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 1 2024
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Offers an innovative analysis of gates-as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs-in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives-including philosophy, architecture, and psychology-and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space in-between, efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the ten thousand forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside (wai/nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied-including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of decision-gating that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.

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