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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology

by John B. Henderson

An intellectual history of Chinese correlative cosmology, including numerological diagrams such as the Hetu and Luoshu. Henderson shows how Qing scholars criticised and dismantled these schemes.

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