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).

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Michael Lackner -- 1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination / Marco Caboara -- 2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du / Bent Nielsen -- 3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China / Paul W. Kroll -- 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 / Vincent Durand-Dastès -- 5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon / Esther-Maria Guggenmos -- 6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources / Dominic Steavu -- 7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau / Anne C. Klein -- 8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric / Martin Kern -- 9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea / Kwon Soo Park -- 10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge / Hsien-huei Liao -- 11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination / Yung Sik Kim -- 12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China / Stéphanie Homola -- 13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea / Jennifer Jung-Kim -- 14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture / Che-Chia Chang -- 15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts / Pingyi Chu -- 16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China / Fan Li and Michael Lackner -- 17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea / Yong Hoon Jun -- 18 How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China / Andrea Bréard -- 19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques / Matthias Hayek -- 20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea / Sanghak Oh -- Index / Michael Lackner.