A Textbook of Physiognomy: The Tradition of the Shenxiang quanbian

Livia Kohn's is a peer-reviewed journal article in Asian Folklore Studies, published by the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, and its specific, checkable contribution is identifying the Shenxiang quanbian as the most complete and most widely available textbook of Chinese physiognomy while tracing its material back to earlier surviving sources, a traceable textual lineage rather than a claim resting on the journal's name. This atlas states plainly that it is a single journal article, a narrower and shorter piece of scholarship than a full monograph, so a broader claim about Chinese physiognomy beyond what this specific article traces needs a more extensive dedicated source. Use it for the documented textual history and content of the Shenxiang quanbian specifically.