Time and space in Chinese culture

Cultural Notions of Space and Time in China / Chun-chieh Huang, Erik Zurcher 3 Spatiotemporal Interpenetration in Chinese Thinking / Kuang-ming Wu 17 Some Notions of Time and of History in China and in the West / Christoph Harbsmeier 49 Historical Thinking in Classical Confucianism - Historical Argumentation from the Three Dynasties / Chun-chieh Huang 72 The Notions of Time and Position in the Book of Change and Their Development / Li-chen Lin 89 The Inner World of the Lao-tzu chung-ching / Kristofer Schipper 114 "In the Beginning": 17th-Century Chinese Reactions to Christian Creationism / Erik Zurcher 132 Western Devices for Measuring Time and Space: Clocks and Euclidian Geometry in Late Ming and Ch'ing China / Catherine Jami 169 Notions of Time and Space in The Early Ch'ing: The Writers of Ku Yen-wu, Hsu Hsia-k'o, Ku Tsu-yu and Chang Hsueh-ch'eng / Eduard B. Vermeer 201 Time and Space in Chinese Narrative Paintings of Han and the Six Dynasties / Pao-chen Chen 239 Timeless in Time: Perspective-Building Devices in Yang Ling-yeh's Poetry / Lloyd Haft 287 The Cycle of Cathay: Concepts of Time in Han China and Their Problems / Michael Loewe 305 Historical Time Pressure: An Analysis of Min Pao (1905-1908) / Chang-Tze Hu 329 The Lament for Autumn: A Type of Time-Space Consciousness in the Tradition of Chinese Literature / Chi-p'eng Ho 343 Time and Space in Traditional Chinese Historical Fiction / Wilt L. Idema 362 Notions of Time, Space and Harmony in Chinese Popular Culture / Yih-yuan Li 383 Contributors 399