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is, borrowed from Wheatley's words, "... affinial expressions of shared conceptions of the ordering of space, or a common, ‘astrobiological' thought. Each was established only after an array of geomantic considerations had been satisfied. Each was constructed as an axis mundi incorporating a powerful impulse to centripetality. Each was laid out as a terrestrial image of the cosmos, in a schema which involved cardinal orientation and axility..."24
FOOTNOTES
1 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (1970; rpt. New York: A Bantam Book, 1974), pp. 49-177.
2 Rene Dubos, So Human an Animal (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968), p. 179.
3 Rene Dubos, Beast or Angel? (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974), p. 166.
4 Dubos, So Human, p. 179.
5 Dubos, So Human, p. 178.
6 Christian Norberg-Schulz, Meaning in Western Architecture (New York: Praeger, 1975), p. 434.
7 For these and other villages of the Kam Tin area, see The Gazetteer of Place Names in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, Hong Kong Govt Printer n.d. pp. 170-175,
8 考卜維王,宅是京,維龜正之,太王成之,武王哉。 The Wen-wang Yu-sheng song, Shih Ching, Shih-chi-chuan, ed. Chu Hsi ([Sung]; rpt. Hong Kong: China Book Co., 1961), p. 188; trans.
9 J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China (Leiden: Librarie et Imprimérie, 1892-1897), III, pp. 1006-1009.
10 Maurice Freedman, Chinese Lineage and Society (London: The Athlone Press, 1966), p. 123.
11 Stephen Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese Geomancy (Vientiane Viettanga, 1974), p. 130.
12 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, p. 118; trans, words in brackets are his.
13 Freedman, Chinese, p. 139.
14 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, p. 223.
15 Freedman, Chinese, p. 140.
16 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, pp. 113-114.
17 Freedman, Chinese, p. 138.
18 Sung, Hok-pang, "Legends and Stories of the New Territories," 1935-1938; rpt. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 13 (1973) and 14 (1974). See 13 (1973), p. 111.
19 Sung, "Legends", 14 (1974), p. 171.
20 K... FAX. The commemorative stone tablet was erected in 1925 by Tang Pak-kau.
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is, borrowed from Wheatley's words, "... affinial expressions of shared conceptions of the ordering of space, or a common, ‘astrobi- ological' thought. Each was established only after an array of geomantic considerations had been satisfied. Each was constructed as an axis mundi incorporating a powerful impulse to centripetality. Each was laid out as a terrestrial image of the cosmos, in a schema which involved cardinal orientation and axility..."24
FOOTNOTES
Alvin Toffier, Future Shock (1970; rpt. New York: A Bantam Book, 1974), pp. 49-177.
2 Rene Rubos, So Human an Animal (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968), p. 179.
* Rene Rubos, Beast or Angel? (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974), p. 166.
4 Dubos, So Human, p. 179.
5 Dubos, So Human, p. 178.
"Christian Norberg-Schulz, Meaning in Western Architecture (New York: Praeger, 1975), p. 434.
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For these and other villages of the Kam Tin area, see The Gazetteer of Place Names in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, Hong Kong Govt Printer n.d. pp. 170-175,
8 考卜維王,宅是京,維龜正之,太王成之,武王哉。 The Wen-wang Yu-sheng song, Shih Ching, Shih-chi-chuan, ed. Chu Hsi ([Sung]; rpt. Hong Kong: China Book Co., 1961), p. 188; trans.
"J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China (Leiden: Librarie et Imprimérie, 1892-1897), III, pp. 1006-1009.
1o Maurice Freedman, Chinese Lineage and Society (London: The Athlone Press, 1966), p. 123.
11 Stephen Feuchtwang. An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese Geomancy (Vientiane Viettanga, 1974), p. 130.
12 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, p. 118; trans, words in brackets are his.
13 Freedman, Chinese, p. 139.
14 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, p. 223.
15 Freedman, Chinese, p. 140.
10 Feuchtwang, An Anthropological Analysis, pp. 113-114.
17 Freedman, Chinese, p. 138.
18 Sung, Hok-pang, "Legends and Stories of the New Territories," 1935-1938; rpt. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 13 (1973) and 14 (1974). See 13 (1973), p. 111.
1o Sung, "Legends', 14 (1974), p. 171.
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**K*... FAX. The commemorative stone tablet was erected in 1925 by Tang Pak-kau.
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