Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Chun-Chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher -- Cultural Notions of Time and Space in China / Chun-chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher -- Spatiotemporal Interpenetration in Chinese Thinking / Kuang-ming Wu -- Some Notions of Time and of History in China and in the West / Christoph Harbsmeier -- Historical Thinking in Classical Confucianism-Historical Argumentation from the Three Dynasties / Chun-chieh Huang -- The Concepts of Time and Position in the Book of Change and their Development / Li-chen Lin -- The Inner World of the Lao-Tzu Chung-Ching / Kristofer Schipper -- "In the Beginning": 17th-Century Chinese Reactions to Christian Creationism / Erik Zürcher -- Western Devices for Measuring Time and Space: Clocks and Euclidian Geometry in Late Ming and Ching China / Catherine Jami -- Notions of Time and Space in the Early Ch'Ing: The Writings of Ku Yen-Wu, Hsü Hsia-K'O, Ku Tsu-Yü and Chang Hsüeh-Ch'Eng / Eduard B. Vermeer -- Time and Space in Chinese Narrative Paintings of Han and the Six Dynasties / Pao-chen Chen -- Timeless in Time: Perspective-Building Devices in Yang Ling-Yeh'S Poetry / Lloyd Haft -- The Cycle of Cathay: Concepts of Time in Han China and their Problems / Michael Loewe -- Historical Time Pressure: An Analysis of Min Pao (1905-1908) / Chang-tze Hu -- The Lament for Autumn: A Type of Time-Space Consciousness in the Tradition of Chinese Literature / Chi-p'eng Ho -- Time and Space in Traditional Chinese Historical Fiction / Wilt L. Idema -- Notions of Time, Space and Harmony in Chinese Popular Culture / Yih-yüan Li -- Contributors / Chun-Chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher -- Sinica Leidensia / Chun-Chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher.

All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese cultural-ness of these notions is. Seventeen scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds have treated topics within this general perspective in a comprehensive way.

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