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Chinese empires were established by force of arms, but sustained by religious
rites and intellectual theory. The four centuries from 206 BC to AD 220
witnessed major changes in the state cults and the concepts of monarchy,
while various techniques of divination were used to forecast the future or to
solve immediate problems. Michael Loewe examines these changes and the
links between religion and statecraft. While both mythology and the
tradition nurtured by the learned affected the concept and practice of
monarchy throughout the period, the political and social weaknesses of the
last century of Han rule bring into question the success that was achieved by
the imperial ideal. Nevertheless that ideal and its institutions were of prime
importance for the understanding of Han times and for the influence they
exercised on China's later dynasties.
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 48
Divination, mythology and monarchy in Han China
A series list is shown at the back of the book
Divination, mythology and
monarchy in Han China
MICHAEL LOEWE
Cambridge University
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 lRP
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©
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 1994
First published 1994
Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data
Loewe, Michael.
Divination, mythology and monarchy in Han China / Michael Loewe.
p. cm. - (University of Cambridge oriental publications; 48)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0 521 45466 2 (hardback)
I.
Religion and state-China. 2. China-History-Han dynasty,
202 BC-220 AD
I.
Title. II. Series.
BL65.S8L64 1994
299'.512177'09014-<lc20
93-28327 CIP
ISBN 0 521 454662 hardback
TO THE MEMORY OF TOON HULSEWE
AND TO EDWARD SHI LS
(1910--93)
TWO FRIENDS AND TEACHERS
IN DEEP GRATITUDE 1''0R THIRTY YEARS OF UNFAILING SUPPORT
AND ENCOURAGEMENT
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CONTENTS
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
page
x1
xm
xv
xvi
Introduction: the history of the early empires
1 Man and beast: the hybrid in early Chinese art and literature
2 Water, earth and fire: the symbols of the Han dynasty
3 The Han view of comets
4 The authority of the emperors of Ch'in and Han
5 The term
K'an-yii
and the choice of the moment
6 Imperial sovereignty: Tung Chung-shu's contribution and his
predecessors
7 The cult of the dragon and the invocation for rain
8 Divination by shells, bones and stalks during the Han period
9 The oracles of the clouds and the winds
10 The Almanacs
(Jih-shu)
from Shui-hu-ti: a preliminary survey
11 The
Chiieh-ti
games: a re-enactment of the battle between
Ch'ih-yu and Hsiian-yiian?
12 The failure of the Confucian ethic in Later Han times
13 The imperial tombs of the Former Han dynasty and their
shrines
List of Han emperors
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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343
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