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.

New Religion: Five Phase Cosmology

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