| Titre | Political concept behind an interplay of spatial « positions » | |
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| Auteur | Véra Dorofeeva-Lichtman | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 18, 1996 Disposer pour dire, placer pour penser, situer pour agir : Pratiques de la position en Chine | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I. Les positions, principes de structuration |
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| Page | 9-33 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This paper aims to show that conveying political ideas in spatial terms is an important and distinctive feature of ancient Chinese political thought. After a brief survey of the fundamental principles of ancient Chinese concepts of terrestrial space, the author examines two spatial schematic representations of the Seven Mighty Kingdoms of the Warring States period (403-222 B.C.). Comparative analysis provides a good illustration of how representing a set of kingdoms as a combination of cardinally-oriented « positions » served as an instrument to establish a sophisticated system of relationships between these kingdoms. Such a system, and, consequently, the expressed political concept, change dramatically with alterations in the relative « positions » of the kingdoms. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_1996_num_18_18_1016 |
