The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes / / Edward Shaughnessy.
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...
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Superior document: | Prognostication in History Series ; Volume 9 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | First edition. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Prognostication in history ;
Volume 9. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (552 pages) |
Notes: | The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book demonstrates its origins in the divinations of Zhou China and how it transformed into the first of the Chinese classics. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Context
- 1 The Zhou Changes : Received Text and Early Manuscripts
- 2 The Philosophy of Divination in Ancient China
- 3 Turtle-Shell Divination
- 4 Milfoil Divination
- 5 Milfoil Divination with the Zhou Changes
- 6 The Poetic Imagination
- Part 2 The Text
- 7 The Hexagram
- 8 The Hexagram Statement
- 9 The Line Statement
- 10 Intra-hexagram and Inter-hexagram Structures of Hexagram Texts
- 11 The Hexagram Sequence
- 12 From Divination to Philosophy
- Works Cited
- Index of Zhou Changes Lines
- Index of Zhou Changes Hexagram and Line Statements Cited
- General Index.