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Concepts Of The Body In The Zhuangzi, Deborah A. Sommer (司馬黛蘭)
Concepts Of The Body In The Zhuangzi, Deborah A. Sommer (司馬黛蘭)
Deborah A. Sommer
In this essay Sommer explores how the Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosophical text that dates to the third or fourth centuries BCE, uses different terms for the human body. She explores each term's different fields of meaning: the body might appear as gong 躬, a sanctimonious ritualized body; shen 身, a site of familial and social personhood; xing 形, an elemental form that experiences mutations and mutilations; or ti 體, a complex, multilayered corpus whose center can be anywhere but whose boundaries are nowhere. The Zhuangzi is one of the richest early Chinese sources for exploring conceptualizations of the visceral human …
Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Deborah A. Sommer
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