Title The animal and the daemon in early China / Roel Sterckx

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 375 pages) Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. Contents The Animal and the Daemon in Early China -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Contextualizing Animals -- The Animal and the Daemon -- Animals as Images -- 1. Defining Animals -- Problems of Definition -- Animals in Texts -- Naming Animals and Animal Names -- Conclusion -- 2. Animals and Officers -- Managing Animals -- Ritual Animals -- Animals and Spirits -- Calendrical Animals -- Conclusion -- 3. Categorizing Animals -- Qi and Blood -- Yinyang and the Five Phases: Correlative Taxonomies -- Toward a Moral Taxonomy -- Conclusion -- 4. The Animal and Territory Animal Patterns as Social Patterns -- Animals and Territory -- Animals beyond Territory -- Conclusion -- 5. Transforming the Beasts -- Animals and the Origins of Music -- Animals, Music, and Moral Transformation -- The Transformation of Animals through Virtue -- Moral Hybrids -- "Speaking with Birds and Beasts" -- Conclusion -- 6. Changing Animals -- A Cosmogony of Change -- Demonic Transformations -- Functional Metamorphosis -- Autonomous Transformations -- Symbolic Metamorphosis -- Portentous Transformations -- Metamorphosing Agents -- Critique of Change -- Conclusion -- 7. Strange Animals Defining the Strange -- Interpreting the Strange -- Confucius Names the Beasts -- When the Grackos Nest in Lu -- The Dog as Daemon -- The Capture of the White Unicorn -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z Summary Annotation Sterckx (Chinese studies, U. of Cambridge) is not interested in the same sort of animals as zoo-historians, archaeologists, fabulists, or literary critics, but in the perceptions of animals and the animal world as a signifying exponent of the world of thought in Warring States and early imperial China. He uses animals as windows into early Chinese views of the world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index Subject Human-animal relationships -- China Animals and civilization -- China POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Animals and civilization Human-animal relationships China Form Electronic book ISBN 9780791489154 0791489159

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