Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China. By Christopher A. Daily. pp. 261. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2013.

Mak, George Kam Wah

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“…While slow to take root outside of its original heartland, it is now global and transcends culture and politics' (Knoop, 2001). Feng shui is a routine part of town planning and architecture programmes at universities (Mak and So, 2015). Many municipal and local authorities have in-house feng shui consultants who pass judgement on building applications, land subdivisions and a variety of other issues.…”

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Feng shui and the scientific testing of chi claims

Matthews

2023

Cultures of Science

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This paper documents the long history of feng shui belief and practice in Chinese culture, and its spread worldwide in the past half century. It shows that commitment to the peculiar qi or chi entity is central to feng shui and more generally to traditional Chinese writings on medicine, astrology, philosophy, politics, literature, natural philosophy and science. Despite their centrality and omnipresence, chi claims have rarely been scientifically appraised. This is, in part, because they are stated so vaguely and mysteriously that no definite test is possible. This paper examines, and refutes, the claims of one rare but well-credentialled, multi-university-based research programme affirming the reality of chi. The paper shows that the cost of seriously endorsing a chi-based explanation of any putative effect is a rejection of the entire ontological, epistemological and methodological edifice of modern science. Chi explanations are incompatible with both a methodological and an ontological naturalist understanding of science.

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Feng shui and the scientific testing of chi claims

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2023

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“…Professors Mak and So are the founders of the International Conference series on "Scientific Feng Shui and the Built Environment", and authors of several publications on this topic. Their approach, perfectly understandable through one of their most relevant monographs, Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment (Mak and So 2015), is based on the need to prove that China has a scientific stream of thought comparable with that of the West, and that fengshui is a science. They focus their attention on the theories and methods of the two main schools of fengshui, the one of Form and the one of Compass, 16 in order to assess the validity of their principles.…”

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Fengshui

Ambrogio

2023

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In this article, we will define fengshui as a contemporary hybrid way of thinking with a long history that unfolds from ancient Chinese philosophy and the art of ruling, through Song Neo-Confucianism, to modern Western ecologic interpretations. We will particularly highlight the cosmological and moral ratio of this art in the philosophical thought of Zhu Xi and Cai Yuanding, which we will propose as the possible source of a renovated moral fengshui. After this historical framework, we will present the process of the scientifization of fengshui as a building technology. Therefore, we will put into question this enframing of fengshui as a modern technology through both Heidegger’s lens and Li Zehou’s definition of “proper measure” (du 度). Following this hermeneutical analysis, we will propose jiyi 技藝 (technique-art) as the most suitable definition of fengshui and we will present the ethical dimension behind it (i.e., filial piety towards nature). In the conclusions, we will argue that fengshui is not, properly speaking, an environmental philosophy or an ecologism, since these two concepts are too rooted in Western philosophical culture (i.e., transcendence and the separateness of humans and nature). However, we are convinced that fengshui could fruitfully contribute to a deeper ecological awareness with a Chinese character on both the local and global scales.

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Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China. By Christopher A. Daily. pp. 261. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2013.

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