Observing the Unseen : Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schonebaum, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages).

Place of Publication:

2026

Biography/History:

Schonebaum Andrew: Andrew Schonebaum is associate professor of Chinese literary and cultural studies at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2016); and coeditor, with Tina Lu, of Approaches to Teaching "The Story of the Stone" (Dream of the Read Chamber) (MLA, 2013). Andrew Schonebaum is associate professor of Chinese literary and cultural studies at the University of Maryland. He is author of Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China and editor of Approaches to Teaching "The Plum in the Golden Vase" (The Golden Lotus).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Simplified Chronology of Chinese Dynasties with Selected Reign Periods

Introduction

Chapter 1 Fortune Telling, Storytelling

Chapter 2 Thunder, Writing, and Justice

Chapter 3 Dragons and Bugs

Chapter 4 Water, Connoisseurship, and Curiosity

Chapter 5 Unseen Practices

Chapter 6 Animating Forces

Conclusion

Chinese Character Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-295-75424-9

OCLC:

1584004302

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access