Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives–including philosophy, architecture, and psychology–and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space and quot;in-between, and quot; efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the and quot;ten thousand and quot; forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside outside (wai nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity break, chaos order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied–including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of and quot;decision-gating and quot; that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.

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