Table of Contents

1: Fengshui: A Challenge to Anthropology; 2: Fengshui Practices and Policies, 1850-1949; 3: Fengshui Practices and Policies after 1949; 4: The Fengshui Revival - Fieldwork in Sichuan; 5: Another School of Fengshui - Fieldwork in Jiangsu; 6: Feng-shui Stories and Possible Interpretations; 7: The Construction of a Discourse: Feng-shui as Environmental Ethics; 8: Conclusion; Appendix: On the Origin of Fengshui and the History of its Literature; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Ole Bruun is Associate Professor at Roskilde University's Institute for Society and Globalization. Besides working on fengshui and Asian perceptions of nature in general, he is a leading scholar on Mongolian studies.

Reviews

"'This valuable study will be required reading for scholars of Chinese religion, and makes a valuable contribution to the anthropology of religion.' Joseph Bosco, in East Asia, 2004) 'Offers significant insights into the working of diverse coexisting traditions... [and will] undoubtedly remain an important work in the studies of contemporary China's transformation as well as postcolonial cultural development.' (Yinong Xu, in China Review International, 2004)"