Qi as Lived Experience
Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought
Series: Daoism and the Human Experience;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 25 June 2026
- ISBN 9781350575806
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language 700
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Short description:
An interdisciplinary exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi that shows how it continues to be relevant beyond China.
MoreLong description:
In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.
As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights into the significance of qi in the current Anthropocene. They connect Daoist studies, Chinese medicine, martial arts, popular culture, and historical phenomenology to examine the experience of qi as part of the natural world, as breathwork, as mind-body connections, and as an increasingly frequent referent in film, comic books, and medicinal products.
This interdisciplinary conversation includes explorations of qi in the context of ancient texts, performing arts, medical anthropology, and consciousness studies. Their approach allows them to reveal the fundamental role qi plays in our shared experience of being human-in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the fractured identities with which many of us contend.
Covering its earliest inception in the minds of Chinese proto-scientists to its function in our transglobal world, this co-authored work opens up novel ways of studying brains, minds and the spaces we now inhabit.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction Adam D. Frank, Nancy N. Chen, and Stephen L. Field
1. The Invention of Qi Stephen L. Field
2. Is Wind the Ancestor of Qi? Stephen L. Field
3. Seeking Potency of Mountains in Tracks of Qi Stephen L. Field
4. Breath in the Anthropocene Nancy N. Chen
5. Qi as a Problem of Consciousness Adam D. Frank
6. What Is Qi? Adam D. Frank, Nancy N. Chen, and Stephen L. Field
Bibliography
Index
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