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EARLY CHINESE ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY : = THE "MANDATE OF HEAVEN" AS EPIPHANY.

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Title/Author:	EARLY CHINESE ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY :/
Reminder of title:	THE "MANDATE OF HEAVEN" AS EPIPHANY.
Author:	PANKENIER, DAVID WILLIAM.
Description:	1 online resource (358 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-10, Section: A, page: 3067.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
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EARLY CHINESE ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY : = THE "MANDATE OF HEAVEN" AS EPIPHANY.
PANKENIER, DAVID WILLIAM.

EARLY CHINESE ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY :THE "MANDATE OF HEAVEN" AS EPIPHANY. - 1 online resource (358 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-10, Section: A, page: 3067.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references

The purpose of this investigation is twofold. First, it seeks to clarify the history of early Zhou astronomy and astrology, and to establish the historicity of accounts of significant celestial phenomena that are recorded in the Bamboo Annals and in other Zhou and Han Dynasty sources. Second, in so doing, it strives to demonstrate the crucial role of planetary cycles in reconstructing not only the absolute chronology of Shang and Western Zhou but also the historical development of the concept of the "Mandate of Heaven.".

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian literature.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a The purpose of this investigation is twofold. First, it seeks to clarify the history of early Zhou astronomy and astrology, and to establish the historicity of accounts of significant celestial phenomena that are recorded in the Bamboo Annals and in other Zhou and Han Dynasty sources. Second, in so doing, it strives to demonstrate the crucial role of planetary cycles in reconstructing not only the absolute chronology of Shang and Western Zhou but also the historical development of the concept of the "Mandate of Heaven.".
520 $a The principal focus of the study is on integrating modern methods of verifying astronomical observations with a traditional philological approach to textual scholarship. The issue of the questionable historicity of the "current" version of the Bamboo Annals and the problem of the late Shang and early Zhou chronology are examined in depth.
520 $a The investigation demonstrates that the conferral of the "Mandate of Heaven" was signalled by a manifestation of heavenly approval of the dynastic founder in the form of highly unusual alignments of all five visible planets in 1576 and 1059 B.C. Once the astronomical dates of such strategic celestial events recorded in the Bamboo Annals are correctly identified, it becomes possible to unravel the history of successive, systematic distortions of the chronicle. It is shown that the observations of planetary phenomena recorded in the Bamboo Annals and the coherent chronology in which they are embedded derive from contemporary accounts. The 517-year period of the planetary alignments associated with the conferral of the Mandate is found to underlie the venerable Zhou tradition that virtuous dynastic founders arise at intervals of five hundred years. Th coexistence during the Zhou Dynasty of written records displaying a high degree of observational skill and of mythicized renderings of the same events in symbolic language attests to the integrity of independent modes of transmission of such data, the one archival and written and the other mythological and oral. The historic role of these periodic revelations of Heaven's will bears importantly on our understanding of the scientific and political culture of the Shang, Zhou and Han Dynasties.
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