Feng Shui

Eitel, Ernest J.

Chinese Geomancy, Qi Landscape Theory, and Victorian Sinology in Nineteenth-Century China

7,70 €

ISBN: 9788028376048

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 75 g

Produktinformationen "Feng Shui"

Ernest J. Eitel's Feng Shui, originally published as Feng-Shui; or, The Rudiments of Natural Science in China, is one of the earliest extended English-language attempts to explain the cosmological art of siting graves, houses, and cities. Written in a lucid Victorian expository style, it translates Chinese geomantic ideas-qi, directional forces, landscape forms, and the compass-into the categories of nineteenth-century "natural science," while also revealing the limits and biases of missionary scholarship. The book belongs to the formative literature of Western sinology, where observation, translation, and cultural judgment often coexist uneasily. Eitel was a German-born Protestant missionary, linguist, and colonial official in Hong Kong, deeply engaged with Chinese language, religion, and popular practice. His work emerged from sustained contact with Cantonese society and from the practical need of Europeans in China to understand customs that shaped architecture, burial, and public life. His missionary perspective often made him critical of feng shui, yet his philological care preserved valuable descriptions of its intellectual structure. This book is recommended to readers interested in Chinese cosmology, colonial knowledge, religious encounter, and the history of anthropology. Read critically, it remains a fascinating document: both a study of feng shui and a record of how the West first tried to interpret it.

Eigenschaften "Feng Shui"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Esoterische Ansätze zur Gestaltung von Wohnräumen, Inneneinrichtung, -ausstattung und Styleguides
Verlag:	Sharp Ink

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