Picturing heaven in early China / / Lillian Lan-ying Tseng.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 336
• VerfasserIn: Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2011]; 2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 336.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 446 p. :); ill. (some col.)

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an ou...