Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body

Xing Wang obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai, and specializes in the study of Chinese divination and Chinese Buddhism

"This volume would be of immense use to those interested in Chinese religion. On a much broader level, this volume has the potential to be of immense use to those interested in general divination practices. In Wang’s own words, the understanding one will gain from this volume will “allowus to re- examine other kinds of techniques that have existed in different religions and social communities, as well as look at how religion, divination, and popular cultivation are techniques central to human life.” – Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review 47/3 (2021)."This book’s theoretically informed approach to a detailed case study of physiognomic theory and practice in Ming China will book reviews interest anyone trying to understand the complex history of thinking with, about, and through the body during any period in Chinese history and likely anywhere else as well." - Marta Hanson, T’oung Pao 108 (2022)