Del 9 - Prognostication in History

Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Edward L. Shaughnessy, Edward Shaughnessy, Edward L Shaughnessy

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The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were produced and how they were understood at the time.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-18
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt1 042 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePrognostication in History
Antal sidor534
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004503670

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesConventionsIntroductionPart 1 The Context1 The Zhou Changes: Received Text and Early Manuscripts2 The Philosophy of Divination in Ancient China3 Turtle-Shell Divination4 Milfoil Divination5 Milfoil Divination with the Zhou Changes6 The Poetic ImaginationPart 2 The Text7 The Hexagram8 The Hexagram Statement9 The Line Statement10 Intra-hexagram and Inter-hexagram Structures of Hexagram Texts11 The Hexagram Sequence12 From Divination to PhilosophyWorks CitedIndex of Zhou Changes LinesIndex of Zhou Changes Hexagram and Line Statements CitedGeneral Index

"Empowered by new sources, new investigative techniques, and the intensity and direction of contemporary Chinese and Western scholarship, he arrives at a striking vindication of the Changes’ religious and cultural status. […] A model for providing the non-specialist with practical access to a classical text and an essential tool for the study of the origins of Chinese culture." – Barbara Hendrischke, Religious Studies 49.1 (March 2023)