Fengshui deserves serious scrutiny from geographers. Fengshui has been a hi
ghly significant influence on the shaping of human environments in the Chin
ese cultural sphere for at least 4000 years. Efforts to eliminate it in the
twentieth century, by Chinese governments intent on modernisation, have fa
iled. Advice on fengshui is still eagerly sought today by families and busi
nesses in Chinese communities, whether on the mainland, offshore or oversea
s. The first part of this paper briefly introduces fengshui. The second par
t applies Lefebvre's three modalities of space to the time-space manipulati
ons and outcomes of the operation of fengshui. The third part explores what
fengshui offers a postmodern world, concentrating on (a) the nature of the
'harmony' it seeks to establish between people and nature; (b) the nature
of fengshui's time-universe; and (c) the extent to which fengshui's goals o
f time-space harmony offer a framework for approaching sustainable developm
ent.