{"product_id":"unlocking-the-chinese-gate-9781438497532","title":"Unlocking the Chinese Gate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers an innovative analysis of gates?as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs?in early Chinese thought and material culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlocking the Chinese Gate\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives-including philosophy, architecture, and psychology-and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space \"in-between,\" efficaciously manifests (\u003ci\u003ede\u003c\/i\u003e) the Way (\u003ci\u003edao\u003c\/i\u003e) into the \"ten thousand\" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside\/outside (\u003ci\u003ewai\/nei\u003c\/i\u003e) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity\/break, chaos\/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied-including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of \"decision-gating\" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039819596119,"sku":"9781438497532","price":72.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unlocking-the-chinese-gate-9781438497532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}