From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Friday, April 26, 2013

New Religion (7)—Chinese Five-Phase Cosmology

A year ago on Round and Square (26 April 2012)—Primary Sources: Who Gets Up Early?
Click here for the introduction to this series of "Religion in Modern China" posts.
[a] Yin-yang (five-phase)
My new (weekly) column on the UK website "New Religion—Religion, Politics, Analysis" is up. This week I wrote about "five-phase cosmology in Chinese thought, and I begin it with the following question: "What's black and white and five all over? Well, the answer is last week's and this week's posts. Take a look. This is the promised land at the heart of Chinese cosmology.


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Unlucky Four
Temple of Heaven 
All Under Heaven 
Yin and Yang 
Five-Phase Cosmology

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