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Author:   Donald Harper ,  Marc Kalinowski
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   33
Weight:   1.669kg
ISBN:  

9789004310193

ISBN 10:   9004310193
Pages:   534
Publication Date:   14 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Maps, Tables, Figures, and Plates Acknowledgments Tables 0.1–0.9 Map 0.1 Introduction  Donald Harper and Marc Kalinowski  Hemerology  Technical Occult and Scientific Literature  Codicology of Daybook Manuscripts  Daybook Studies and Ancient Chinese Hemerology  Conventions Used in this Volume  Chinese Terms and Translations  Latin, Medieval Vernacular, and Cuneiform Sources  Chinese Conceptual Terms and Hemerological Terminology 1 Daybooks in Archaeological Context  Alain Thote  Daybooks in Tombs  The Four Tombs  Manuscripts in Tombs  Conclusion 2 Daybooks: A Type of Popular Hemerological Manual of the Warring States, Qin, and Han  Liu Lexian  Content and Defining Features of Daybooks  Overview of Fully Published Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts  Unpublished or Partially Published Hemerological Material  Comparison of Daybooks to Related Technical Literature in Excavated Manuscripts  Daybooks from the Perspective of the Bibliographic Treatise of the Book of Han  Daybooks and Later Hemerological Texts  Conclusion 3 Daybooks in the Context of Manuscript Culture and Popular Culture Studies  Donald Harper  Hemerology and Hemerological Literature through the Lens of Late Han Historiography  Makers and Users of Daybooks  The Form and Function of Daybook Manuscripts  Daybooks in Everyday Life  Conclusion 4 Hemerology and Prediction in the Daybooks: Ideas and Practices  Marc Kalinowski  Daily Activities and Life Expectations in the Daybooks  Techniques and Systems  Conclusion  Supplement 4.1  Supplement 4.2  Supplement 4.3  Supplement 4.4  Supplement 4.5 5 Daybooks and the Spirit World  Yan Changgui  The Spirit World  Spirit Origin and Background: Explanation of the “Death Corpse-Ghost” Diagram  Expelling Demons and Spirits: Techniques of Exorcism in “Spellbinding”  Spirits in the Context of Hemerology  Conclusion  Supplement 5.1 6 The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts  Li Ling  Discovery of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts and the History of Ownership  The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts: Physical Description and Contents  The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts and Ancient Chinese Hemerological Literature  Conclusion 7 Calendars and Calendar Making in Qin and Han Times  Christopher Cullen  Looking at a Calendar  Calculating the Calendar  Who Calculated the Calendar?  Conclusion 8 Daybooks in Qin and Han Religion  Marianne Bujard  The First Tiller Cult: Public and Private Rites  Local Cults of the Qin and Han  Private Rituals in the Daybooks  Conclusion 9 The Legacy of Daybooks in Late Imperial and Modern China  Richard Smith  Brief Overview of Calendars and Almanacs from the Tang through the Ming Dynasty  State-Sponsored Cosmology in the Qing  The State Calendar and Its Derivatives  Qing Dynasty Almanacs  Concluding Remarks 10 Hemerology in Medieval Europe  László Sándor Chardonnens  Hemerology and Daybooks  Hemerology and the Study of Time  Divination, Commemoration, and Natural Philosophy  Hemerological Practices  Conclusion 11 Babylonian Hemerologies and Menologies 408  Alasdair Livingstone  Research Background  The Babylonian Cultic Calendar  The Hemerologies  Use of the Hemerologies  Retrospect: A Scientific Experiment in Hemerology Appendices Appendix A: Survey of Excavated Daybooks, Daybook-Related Manuscripts, and Other Hemerological Material Appendix B: Summary of Published Daybooks and Daybook-Related Manuscripts Appendix C: Description of Select Hemerologies and Classificatory Systems in Daybooks Bibliography Plates Index

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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.

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