Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings.

List of contents

1: Shaping and Numbering 2: Orbiting the Huainanzi 3: The Zhuangzi's Inner Chapters: Thinking within and outside Circles 4: Confucius and the Hen-Pheasant 5: The Laozi as a Topological Space

About the author

Benoît Vermander is professor of religious anthropology at Fudan University (Shanghai), where he also teaches the hermeneutic of Chinese Classics. He heads the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute in the same university. His research interests and publications focus on cross-cultural hermeneutic, comparative classics, and Chinese religiosities.

Product details

• Authors: Benoit Vermander, Benoît Vermander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032735504
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273550-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; China, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Literary studies: general, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600