Xing Wang earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and this Brill monograph, part of the Sinica Leidensia series, is the first English-language book primarily dedicated to Chinese physiognomy, xiangshu, in the Ming dynasty, covering its social, textual and technical history. Its strength is that it is a genuinely original contribution, filling a gap where no earlier English monograph existed on this specific topic, built from close reading of Ming-period physiognomy texts. Its limit is that as a first specialist monograph on a narrow topic it is aimed at scholars of Chinese religion and divination, so a reader wanting a general introduction to Chinese physiognomic practice across other dynasties needs a broader source alongside this Ming-focused study.
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Published by Brill, a major academic press for Asian studies, as Xing Wang's scholarly monograph on Ming-era physiognomy, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesSinica Leidensia, volume 149. Leiden, Brill, 2020. ISBN 978 90 04 42954 3 hardcover, 978 90 04 42955 0 e-book. Xing Wang's book is the first monograph in English primarily dedicated to Chinese physiognomy, xiangshu, in the Ming dynasty, covering its social, textual and technical history.
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AuthorXing Wang
PublisherBrill
Publication Year2020
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Historical Periods, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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