Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body

by Xing Wang

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy (xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented 'somatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004429549
• ISBN13: 9789004429543
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"