{"product_id":"the-dreaming-mind-and-the-lynn-a-struve-9780824875251","title":"The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming--and in a wider array of genres--than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this \"dream arc\" and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, religionists, litterateurs, memoirists, painters, doctors, and political figures of late Ming and early Qing times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume's encompassing thesis asserts that certain associations of dreaming, grounded in the neurophysiology of the human brain at sleep--such as subjectivity, irrationality, the unbidden, lack of control, emotionality, spontaneity, the imaginal, and memory--when especially heightened by historical and cultural developments, are likely to pique interest in dreaming and generate florescences of dream-expression among intellectuals. The work thus makes a contribution to the history of how people have understood human consciousness in various times and cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World is the most substantial work in any language on the historicity of Chinese dream culture. Within Chinese studies, it will appeal to those with backgrounds in literature, religion, philosophy, political history, and the visual arts. It will also be welcomed by readers interested in comparative dream cultures, the history of consciousness, and neurohistory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn A. Struve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824875257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824875251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019","brand":"Lynn A. Struve","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065202422015,"sku":"9780824875251","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08b64851-3a5c-466d-a1fe-eec5c482d30e.jpg?v=1768673652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dreaming-mind-and-the-lynn-a-struve-9780824875251","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}