Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought

This Element explores the development of self-cultivation methods in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia, analyzing textualization, systematization, and dissemination among social groups. It explores body models, vitality cultivation, disease models, and therapies, comparing them with early Western medical traditions.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Nourishing the Embodied Self through Philosophy; 3. Nourishing the Embodied Self through Hygienic Culture; 4. Healing the Embodied Self in the Yellow Emperor Corpus; 5. Conclusion: Therapies of the Self.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Edward Lewis, Mark Edward (Stanford University Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009486897
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948689-7
• No. of pages: 62
• Series: Elements in Ancient East Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, Asian History, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Popular medicine and health: the human body