Description: Ten Thousand Things by Judith Farquhar, Qicheng Zhang Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The myriad ways Beijing residents understand and nurture the good life, drawing on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. Publisher Description The myriad ways Beijing residents understand and nurture the good life, drawing on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing, singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are generative in ten thousand ways: they "give birth to life and transform the transformations." This book attends to the patterns of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges. The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and individual. The elements of any particular life-as long as it lasts, and with some skill and determination-can be gathered, centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The result, everyone says, is pleasure. Author Biography Judith Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine, Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, and Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. Qicheng Zhang is a Professor of Classical Medical Chinese and Cultural Studies at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the author of many books on the Chinese heritage of life nurturing. Details ISBN 1935408186 ISBN-13 9781935408185 Title Ten Thousand Things Author Judith Farquhar, Qicheng Zhang Format Hardcover Year 2012 Pages 352 Publisher Zone Books GE_Item_ID:138004652; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781935408185
Book Title: Ten Thousand Things
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Ten Thousand Things : Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing
Publisher: ZONE Books
Subject: Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Monasticism, Sociology / General, History & Surveys / Modern, Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 23.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Qicheng Zhang, Judith Farquhar
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, Medical, History
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
