Fortune and the body: physiognomy in Ming China

Fortune and the body: physiognomy in Ming China

This thesis explores the cosmology of physiognomy—a method of telling fortune by inspecting the body and the material world—and its social reception in China in the Ming period. This is accomplished through the analysis of extant manuals as well as stories of fortune-tellers’ practices. I focus on t...

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Main Author:	Wang, X
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Chinese religion

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