Unlocking the Chinese Gate
Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China
Galia Dor
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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Unlocking the Chinese Gate
Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China
Galia Dor
Ă propos de ce livre
Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectivesâincluding philosophy, architecture, and psychologyâand through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between, " efficaciously manifests ( de ) the Way ( dao ) into the "ten thousand" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside ( wai/nei ) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were appliedâincluding the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of "decision-gating" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.