Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing
- History of China
- Categories:Asia Chinese Culture
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:April,2012
- Pages:352
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- Size:152mm×229mm
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Review
— Tani Barlow, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies, Rice University
“The authorship of this book is unusual: an anthropologist from the United States and a historical philologist from China collaborate in Beijing on a philosophically inspired ethnography of daily life. Their work together constitutes a methodological, conceptual, and historical crossroads between their disciplines, languages, and knowledge practices. Farquhar and Zhang produce a truly cosmopolitan work: they consider how to best move across their fields of life and expertise, and dwell on the phrases, concepts, and practices they encounter in their fieldwork and in Chinese and anthropological texts.”
— Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis
“Part-ethnographic, part-philosophical, and informed by an acute sense of the politics and problems of translation, the text moves with elegance between the two disciplines in both their Chinese and Western forms.Ten Thousand Things is ultimately a wonderful paean to the marvelous miscellany of actual life.”
— Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago
Description
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.”
Author
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
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.