Add to ORKGThe article analyses information on religious elements in the representation of senses in literary sources of late imperial China. The Introduction presents psychological and social functions of olfaction with reference to China. The second part deals with the concepts of *xiang*, especially in the meaning of incense, but also the supernatural and symbolic aromas and the pollutant load of its antonym *chou*. The third part offers a survey of other bodily sensations in relation to religion
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The article analyses information on religious elements in the representation of senses in literary s...
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A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previou...
The article begins with some comments on the comparative method necessary for any research concernin...
Chinese spirit mediumship is an intricate part of the Chinese religious system. A Chinese religions ...
The article analyses information on religious elements in the representation of senses in literary s...
By taking the mid-eighteenth Chinese novel Story of the Stone as a case study, this thesis aims to d...
Séance de travail dans le cadre du thème transversal "Religion and the Senses", Käte Hamburger Kolle...
According to a widely-held view among various scholars, olfaction is inferior to other human senses....
Sense perception, which is of enormous importance in Western philosophical traditions, has scarcely ...
The paper is dedicated to the evolution of boshanlu censers (博山炉) within the context of China’s fra...
The cognitive- and neuro-sciences have supposed that the perceptual world of the individual is domin...
Whistling was one of the early auditory and ideographic means of humans. As a unique cultural phenom...
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneo...
The article deals with the typology of Chinese culture during the Ming Dynasty (1398-1644). Study of...
Aroma fumigation is one of the traditional Chinese fumigating therapies. Moreover, the aroma culture...
Beginning with Republican China, Chinese sought to define themselves in terms of modernity, which wa...
A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previou...
The article begins with some comments on the comparative method necessary for any research concernin...
Chinese spirit mediumship is an intricate part of the Chinese religious system. A Chinese religions ...