Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China : : the Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han / / edited by Donald Harper and Marc Kalinowski.

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE–220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or “knowledge of good and bad days.” Daybooks revea...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 517 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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