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In dem Buch wird das multilokale Leben und Wohnen von Personen mit einem beruflich genutzten Zweitwohnsitz (Shuttles) und von Personen in einer Partnerschaft mit getrennten Haushalten über grosse Distanzen (Fernbeziehungen) im Kontext beruflicher Mobilitatsanforderungen und des sozialen Wandels empirisch untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit beruhen auf einer standardisierten Befragung von zufallig ausgewahlten Zugezogenen in vier deutschen Grossstadten und vertiefenden qualitativen Interviews. Besonderheiten multilokaler Lebens- und Wohnformen werden in Bezug auf sozialstrukturelle Merkmale, Wohnbedingungen und Wohnbedürfnisse mittels Vergleichsgruppenanalysen untersucht.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Fundamental Principles 3. The Taiyi System in the Three Cosmic Boards: Method of the Taiyi Deity 4. Qimen Dunjia: Strange Gates, Escaping Techniques 5. Liuren: The Art of the Six Yang Waters
About the author
Ho Peng Yoke has published widely on Chinese alchemy, astronomy, divination and mathematics. He has occupied senior academic positions in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Australia and Hong Kong before becoming the Director of the Needham Research Institute in 1990. He is an academician of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Academia Sinica and the International Euro-Asia Academy of Science.
Summary
Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs.
Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.
