Download or read book The Geomancer s Compass written by Melissa Hardy and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This futuristic novel has all the elements YA fiction needs to draw critical attention from reviewers, and to elicit award-nominations. It is thematically interesting, culturally diverse, well-written, futuristic, and very funny. Set in the year 2021, this fantastic YA novel explores the tension between a young woman's future building infrastructure for Augmented Reality, and the commitment she makes to her dying grandmother to honour ancient Chinese magic. The Geomancer's Compass imagines a world in the near future while exploring the Chinese immigrant experience and the expanding, elastic and shifting nature of reality.
Download or read book The Architecture of Ideology written by David J. Nemeth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people. Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people.
Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of members.
Download or read book Asian American Religious Cultures 2 volumes written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S. population—roughly 5 percent—Asian Americans are a widely diverse group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions. This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian American Christians.
Download or read book China Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1933-07 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Feng Shui Way Creating the Life You Want Through Your Environment written by Juliana Abram and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Feng Shui Way by author, speaker and Feng Shui expert, Juliana Abram takes the guesswork out of the ancient practice of Feng Shui. Through her enlightened and educated perspective Abram breaks down the mystery of this old Eastern practice and introduces an original, step-by-step guide that is easy to understand and leaves behind the mysticism that so many publications in the past have represented. The book contains 26 illustrations of Feng Shui's signs and symbols, outlines the history, details the cardinal elements of chi and sets the record straight about the much-misunderstood concepts of Feng Shui. Abram's innovative and refreshing approach to understanding the concept of Feng Shui will guide you toward creating a harmonious, healthy and prosperous life. Juliana Abram has studied privately with Grand Master Raymond Lo in Hong Kong since 1996. Ms. Abram is Australia's only licensed instructor and has trained and practiced throughout Asia and Australia. She has counseled and contributed to the planning and design of numerous residential and commercial buildings and has published numerous articles worldwide. She is the Principal of the Feng Shui Centre and has been a global guest, host and speaker on radio and television programs. Ms. Abram is currently working on a series of books about Feng Shui. She lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband. The Feng Shui Way is her first book.
Download or read book Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion written by Robert P. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divination and Oracles written by Michael Loewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of oracles formed part of the religious practice of the ancient world and are part of the living folklore of the contemporary societies. They are subjects that are of immediate concern to anthropologists and not infrequently to the historians of early science. Written by the specialists in the early history of European and Asian Civilisations, the chapters call on the evidence of the written word of history and the surviving artefacts and inscriptions of archaeology. They describe the different methods that have been adopted and examine the types of question that feature in man’s attempt to seek guidance from other powers. The contributions show how an appeal to the irrational can affect the decision of prophet or statesman, or the way of life of farmer or sailor; and how such an appeal can also stimulate scientific enquiry into the cycles of nature. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of religion, comparative religion, and ancient history.
Download or read book Korean Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Buddhism written by Edkins and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fengshui in China written by Ole Bruun and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, Chinese fengshui, or "geomancy," has interested Western laymen and scholars. Today, hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can increase their wealth, happiness, longevity, and so on. This study is quite different, approaching fengshui from an academic angle. The focus is on its significance in China, but the recent history of its reinterpretation in the West is also depicted. The author argues that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge, which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas, such as disease, mental disorders, accidents, and common mischief. The study includes a historical account of fengshui over the last 150 years augmented by the results of anthropological fieldwork on contemporary practices in two Chinese rural areas.
Download or read book Fortune tellers and Philosophers written by Richard J Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology, numerology, physiognomy, the analysis of written characters, meteorological divination, the use of mediums (including spirit-writing), and dream interpretation. As he explains the pervasiveness and tenacity of divination in China, the author explores not only the connections between various mantic techniques but also the relationship between divination and other facets of Chinese culture, including philosophy, science and medicine. He discusses the symbolism of divination, its aesthetics, its ritual aspects, and its psychological and social significance, pointing out that in traditional China divination helped to order the future, just as history helped to order the past, and rituals the present.
Download or read book The Culture of Fengshui in Korea written by Hong-Key Yoon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water,' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as 'geomancy,' and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and other East Asian cultures. Hong-key Yoon's book explores the nature of geomantic principles and the culture of practicing them in Korean cultural contexts. Yoon first examines the nature and historical background of geomancy, geomantic principles for auspicious sites (houses, graves, and cities) and provides an interpretation of geomantic principles as practiced in Korea. Yoon looks at geomancy's influence on cartography, religion and philosophy, and urban development in both Korea and China. Finally, Yoon debates the role of geomancy in the iconographical warfare between Japanese colonialism and Korean nationalism as it affected the cultural landscape of Kyongbok Palace in Seoul.
