Coping with the future : : theories and practices of divination in East Asia / / edited by Michael Lackner.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 138
• TeilnehmendeR: Lackner, Michael, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 138.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 586 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination /; 2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du /; 3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China /; 4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China /; 5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon /; 6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources /; 7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau /; 8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric /; 9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea /; 10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge /; 11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination /; 12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China /; 13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea /; 14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture /; 15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts /; 16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China /; 17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea /; 18 How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China /; 19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques /; 20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004356789
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael Lackner.

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.