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Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China By Jesse J. Chapman Subjects: Chinese Religion And Philosophy, History, Cultural Studies, History Of Science Series: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Hardcover : 9798855800548, 224 pages, January 2025 Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times. Description Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signs—including comets, strange clouds, halos, rainbows, and planets in retrograde motion—fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times. Advancing a cultural studies approach to celestial signs, Jesse J. Chapman traces the theory and practice of sign-reading across a range of genres, including technical manuals, historical narratives, and memorials to the throne. Moving from variegated materials in an early tomb to historical treatises compiled over several centuri
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