عنوان

The dreaming mind and the end of the Ming world /

(Number (ISBN

0824878140

(Number (ISBN

9780824878146

Erroneous ISBN

0824875257

Erroneous ISBN

9780824875251

Title Proper

The dreaming mind and the end of the Ming world /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Lynn A. Struve.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawai'i Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 319 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-304) and index.

Text of Note

Continuities in the dream lives of Ming intellectuals -- Sources of special dream salience in late Ming -- Crisis dreaming -- Dream-coping in the aftermath.

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Text of Note

From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming--and in a wider array of genres--than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this "dream arc" and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, religionists, litterateurs, memoirists, painters, doctors, and political figures of late Ming and early Qing times. The volume's encompassing thesis asserts that certain associations of dreaming, grounded in the neurophysiology of the human brain at sleep--such as subjectivity, irrationality, the unbidden, lack of control, emotionality, spontaneity, the imaginal, and memory--when especially heightened by historical and cultural developments, are likely to pique interest in dreaming and generate florescences of dream-expression among intellectuals. The work thus makes a contribution to the history of how people have understood human consciousness in various times and cultures. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World is the most substantial work in any language on the historicity of Chinese dream culture. Within Chinese studies, it will appeal to those with backgrounds in literature, religion, philosophy, political history, and the visual arts. It will also be welcomed by readers interested in comparative dream cultures, the history of consciousness, and neurohistory.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctv7s9hn0

Title

Dreaming mind and the end of the Ming world.

International Standard Book Number

9780824875251

Dream interpretation-- China-- History.

Dreams-- China-- History.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Dreams.

Dream interpretation.

Dreams.

HISTORY-- Asia-- China.

China.

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HIS-- 008000

OCC-- 006000

SOC-- 002010

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Edition

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Book number

Struve, Lynn A.,1944-

Date of Transaction

20200822141355.0

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pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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