Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China - The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE) and intended for use in daily life.

About the author

Donald Harper, Ph.D. (1983), is the Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago. His research and publications focus on newly discovered manuscripts and their significance for the history of religion, science, and technology in early China.

Marc Kalinowski, Ph.D. (1978), is Professor of Chinese Religion and Thought at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He has published widely on correlative cosmology and mantic arts in transmitted texts and the manuscript culture of early and medieval China.

Product details

• Assisted by: Donald Harper (Editor), Marc Kalinowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2017
• EAN: 9789004310193
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31019-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 290 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1678 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)