Fr. 70.00

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.


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