Portents in Early Imperial China: Observational Patterns from the "Spring and Autumn" Weft Profoundly Immersed Herptile (Qiantan ba 潛潭巴)

Still neglected by modern research, the "Weft" (or "Apocrypha") contain a wealth of unexploited data relevant to Chinese history in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Sometimes ascribed to Confucius, these texts, whose Chinese name (wei 緯) denotes the crosswise threads of...

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Main Author: Espesset, Grégoire 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: International journal of divination and prognostication
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-287
Further subjects:B ancient science
B China
B Qiantan ba 潛潭巴
B Late Antiquity (1st–2nd cent.) to Early Middle Ages (3rd–6th cent.)
B portents
B wei 緯 (Weft)
B History
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