Time and space in Chinese culture

All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese cultural-ness of these notions is. Seventeen scho...

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All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese cultural-ness of these notions is. Seventeen scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds have treated topics within this general perspective in a comprehensive way.

All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese "cultural-ness" of these notions is. Seventeen sc...

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All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese "cultural-ness" of these notions is. Seventeen scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds have treated topics within this general perspective in a comprehensive way.

Cultural Notions of Space and Time in China / Chun-chieh Huang, Erik Zurcher 3
Spatiotemporal Interpenetration in Chinese Thinking / Ku ang-ming Wu 17
Some Notions of Time and of History in China and in the West / Christoph Harbsmeier 49
Historical Thinking in Classical Confucianism - Historical Argumentation from the Three Dynasties / Chun-chieh Huang 72
The Notions of Time and Position in the Book of Change and Their Development / Li-chen Lin 89
The Inner World of the Lao-tzu chung-ching / Kristofer Schipper 114
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Cultural Notions of Space and Time in China / Chun-chieh Huang, Erik Zurcher 3
Spatiotemporal Interpenetration in Chinese Thinking / Ku ang-ming Wu 17
Some Notions of Time and of History in China and in the West / Christoph Harbsmeier 49
Historical Thinking in Classical Confucianism - Historical Argumentation from the Three Dynasties / Chun-chieh Huang 72
The Notions of Time and Position in the Book of Change and Their Development / Li-chen Lin 89
The Inner World of the Lao-tzu chung-ching / Kristofer Schipper 114
"In the Beginning": 17th-Century Chinese Reactions to Christian Creationism / Erik Zurcher 132
Western Devices for Measuring Time and Space: Clocks and Euclidian Geometry in Late Ming and Ch'ing China / Catherine Jami 169
Notions of Time and Space in The Early Ch'ing: The Writers of Ku Yen-wu, Hsu Hsia-k'o, Ku Tsu-yu and Chang Hsueh-ch'eng / Eduard B. Vermeer 201
Time and Space in Chinese Narrative Paintings of Han and the Six Dynasties / Pao-chen Chen 239
Timeless in Time: Perspective-Building Devices in Yang Ling-yeh's Poetry / Lloyd Haft 287
The Cycle of Cathay: Concepts of Time in Han China and Their Problems / Michael Loewe 305
Historical Time Pressure: An Analysis of Min Pao (1905-1908) / Chang-Tze Hu 329
The Lament for Autumn: A Type of Time-Space Consciousness in the Tradition of Chinese Literature / Chi-p'eng Ho 343
Time and Space in Traditional Chinese Historical Fiction / Wilt L. Idema 362
Notions of Time, Space and Harmony in Chinese Popular Culture / Yih-yuan Li 383
Contributors 399
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