Primary Way

Chung-ying Cheng is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. His many books include New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press.

• ForewordPreface1. Introducing the Yijing (易经): Six Stages of Development and Six Topics of the Yijing2. Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy3. Interpreting a Paradigm of Change in Chinese Philosophy4. Inquiring into the Primary Model: Yijing and Chinese Ontological Hermeneutics5. Philosophical Significance of Guan: From Guan (观) to Onto-Hermeneutical Unity of Methodology and Ontology6. Yin-Yang (阴阳) Way of Onto-Cosmic Thinking and Philosophy of the Yi (易)7. On Harmony as Transformation: Paradigms from the Yijing8. Zhouyi (周易) and the Philosophy of Wei (Positions位)9. Li (理) and Qi (气) in the Yijing: A Reconsideration of Being and Nonbeing in Chinese Philosophy10. On the Yijing as a Symbolic System of Integrated Communication11. On Zhu Xi's Integration of Yili (义理) and Xianshu (象数) in the Study of the Yijing12. On Timeliness (Shizhong时中) in the Analects and the Yijing: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Relationship between Confucius and the YijingChinese GlossaryEnglish Key TermsNotesA Bibliography of the Yijing in ChineseA Bibliography of the Yijing in Western LanguagesWorks CitedIndex

"This book will be an extremely valuable contribution to the Anglophone world's understanding of Chinese thought. Its riches are both philosophical and expository, and I believe it will find a lot of use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms, since in addition to its philosophical synthesis it provides a fine introduction to the often baffling symbolic system and methodology of the text, as well as its history and its ambiguities. It is sinologically solid as well as accessible to educated readers from other disciplines who may wish to find out what the Yi is all about. I think this will be the go-to book on the topic for many years." — Brook Ziporyn, author of Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents