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Fengshui in China : geomantic divination between state orthodoxy and popular religion / Ole Bruun ; foreword by Stephan Feuchtwang. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2003. - xiv, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.

Fengshui : a challenge to anthropology -- Fengshui practices and policies, 1850 to 1949 -- Fengshui practices and policies after 1949 -- The fengshui revival : fieldwork in Sichuan -- Another school of fengshui : fieldwork in Jiangsu -- Fengshui stories and possible interpretations -- The construction of a discourse : fengshui as environmental ethics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: On the origin of fengshui and the history of its literature.

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