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Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.
Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives-including philosophy, architecture, and psychology-and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the "ten thousand" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside (wai/nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied-including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of "decision-gating" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Chinese Language and Translation
A (Semipersonal) Preface
Introduction
1. Chinese Gates in Fourfold Context: Observation, "Existential Thought," Spatiality, Etymology
2. Gates of Creation: Correlates between Man, Text, and Cosmos
3. Gates to Inner Formlessness
4. Should I Open or Close My Gate? An Individual's Home, Mouth, and Mind
5. Gates to Sociomoral Order and Distinctions
6. The Gate as Authority: The Construction of Order and Control
7. Destroy the Mind Barrier! An Opportunity for Personal Transformation
Discussion and Further Reflections: A Chinese Gate's Resolution
Notes
Bibliography
Index
