Ming‐ming Wang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3452835 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ming‐ming Wang |
| PRENOMES | Ming‐ming |
| SOBRENOME | Wang |
| ASSINATURA | WANG M M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7690-8208 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
For Heaven-Human Conviviality
This article uses a Chinese narrative of 'nature-human harmony' as the main thread to connect the contributions of ontological anthropology. I argue that the best of the critiques of nature-human or nature-culture dualism in social anthropology propose rebuilding a world that 'pursues harmony while preserving difference' in the double sense of nature and culture. Given that most social scientific problems are indeed related to utilitarian individ…
To learn from the ancestors or to borrow from the foreigners
This article is a shortened version of a lecture. It deals with the duality of China's modern 'civilisation' - its connectivity with the 'ancestral landscape' and its openings to the outside world. In presenting the duality, the author examines a wide range of intellectual and political discourses of 'civilisation' emerged in the past three decades and relates them to the translation and re-translation of the concept in a longer history. The auth…
All under heaven (tianxia)
This essay examines historical transformations of the Chinese concept of tianxia ("all under heaven"1) in pre-modern periods. More specifically, it attends to the diverse ways tianxia has been built out of relationships between cosmology and political organization. The subtitles of this essay-archaic tianxia, relatedness as virtue, conceptions of the world in the Warring States, empire, Neo-Daoist and Buddhist inversions, and ethnographic others-…
Place, Administration, and Territorial Cults in Late Imperial China
PLACE, ADMINISTRATION, AND TERRITORIAL CULTS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: A CASE STUDY FROM SOUTH FUJIAN* Mingming Wang Throughout China's late imperial period (1368 to 1911), an integrated system of urban socio-spatial divisions, upujing" (wards or precincts), was practiced in the city of Quanzhou in southern Fujian. This spatial institution was invented by the Ming dynasty's regional magistrates in the 1370s. Its initial functions were militia organ…
All under heaven (tianxia)
This essay examines historical transformations of the Chinese concept of tianxia ("all under heaven"1) in pre-modern periods. More specifically, it attends to the diverse ways tianxia has been built out of relationships between cosmology and political organization. The subtitles of this essay-archaic tianxia, relatedness as virtue, conceptions of the world in the Warring States, empire, Neo-Daoist and Buddhist inversions, and ethnographic others-…
For Heaven-Human Conviviality
This article uses a Chinese narrative of 'nature-human harmony' as the main thread to connect the contributions of ontological anthropology. I argue that the best of the critiques of nature-human or nature-culture dualism in social anthropology propose rebuilding a world that 'pursues harmony while preserving difference' in the double sense of nature and culture. Given that most social scientific problems are indeed related to utilitarian individ…
To learn from the ancestors or to borrow from the foreigners
This article is a shortened version of a lecture. It deals with the duality of China's modern 'civilisation' - its connectivity with the 'ancestral landscape' and its openings to the outside world. In presenting the duality, the author examines a wide range of intellectual and political discourses of 'civilisation' emerged in the past three decades and relates them to the translation and re-translation of the concept in a longer history. The auth…
Place, Administration, and Territorial Cults in Late Imperial China
PLACE, ADMINISTRATION, AND TERRITORIAL CULTS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: A CASE STUDY FROM SOUTH FUJIAN* Mingming Wang Throughout China's late imperial period (1368 to 1911), an integrated system of urban socio-spatial divisions, upujing" (wards or precincts), was practiced in the city of Quanzhou in southern Fujian. This spatial institution was invented by the Ming dynasty's regional magistrates in the 1370s. Its initial functions were militia organ…
All under heaven (tianxia)
This essay examines historical transformations of the Chinese concept of tianxia ("all under heaven"1) in pre-modern periods. More specifically, it attends to the diverse ways tianxia has been built out of relationships between cosmology and political organization. The subtitles of this essay-archaic tianxia, relatedness as virtue, conceptions of the world in the Warring States, empire, Neo-Daoist and Buddhist inversions, and ethnographic others-…
To learn from the ancestors or to borrow from the foreigners
This article is a shortened version of a lecture. It deals with the duality of China's modern 'civilisation' - its connectivity with the 'ancestral landscape' and its openings to the outside world. In presenting the duality, the author examines a wide range of intellectual and political discourses of 'civilisation' emerged in the past three decades and relates them to the translation and re-translation of the concept in a longer history. The auth…
For Heaven-Human Conviviality
This article uses a Chinese narrative of 'nature-human harmony' as the main thread to connect the contributions of ontological anthropology. I argue that the best of the critiques of nature-human or nature-culture dualism in social anthropology propose rebuilding a world that 'pursues harmony while preserving difference' in the double sense of nature and culture. Given that most social scientific problems are indeed related to utilitarian individ…
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