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  • Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality

    Ways to Paradise by Loewe, Michael;

    The Chinese Quest for Immortality

    Series: Routledge Revivals;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 30 April 2022

    • ISBN 9781032268323
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages302 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • 258

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    Short description:

    First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter.

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    Long description:

    First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in particular three major subjects of Han art and iconography: a recently found silk painting from Central China dating from around 168 BC; the numerous bronze mirrors of the so-called TLV pattern that came into fashion at the beginning of the Christian era, and which are especially rich in cosmological symbolism; and the representations of the Queen Mother of the West which appear as a leading motif of Chinese art from perhaps a century later. These Dr Loewe sets within a framework of contemporary literature and historical incident to create a wonderfully vivid picture of religious life and thought in this early and fascinating period of Chinese history which was to contribute so much to later developments in Far Eastern Philosophy, religion and art.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Han frame of mind 2. The painting from tomb no 1, Ma-wang-tui 3. TLV mirrors and their significance 4. The Queen Mother of the West 5. The bird in the sun and the hare in the moon Notes Appendix List of books cited and abbreviations used Glossary of Chinese and Japanese proper names and terms Index

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