An introduction to feng shui /
From the Publisher: Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual moveme...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- 1: Introduction
- Feng shui as popular religion
- Three themes
- Western receptiveness
- 2: Brief History Of Feng Shui
- Classical age
- Imperial age
- Colonial era
- Communist era
- 3: Feng Shui In The Context Of Chinese Popular Religion
- Family ritual and the yearly festivals
- Chinese almanac, or the know all book (Tongshu)
- Feng shui for building
- Feng shui for burial
- Other common applications
- Feng shui and belief
- Feng shui and other strands of popular divination
- 4: Feng Shui Research
- New turn
- Studies in ecology and nature perception
- Studies in architecture
- 5: Cosmological Principles, Schools Of Interpretation And The Feng Shui Compass
- Book of changes
- Five elements (wu xing)
- Concept of qu (ch'i)
- Schools of feng shui
- Feng shui compass
- 6: Feng Shui In The Chinese Cityscape: China Proper And Overseas
- Cities in China proper
- Taiwan and Hong Kong
- 7: Modern Feng Shui Interpretations And Uses
- New perspective on an old subject
- New schools of feng shui
- Renewed exposure in China
- New feng shui uses: western, Chinese or global?
- Manual authors
- Global exchange
- Corporate feng shui?
- 8: Environmental Concerns
- History and environment in China
- Some fieldwork experiences
- New Chinese environmentalism
- 9: Feng Shui As Cultural Globalization?
- Bibliography
- Index.