The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes / / Edward Shaughnessy.

• Superior document: Prognostication in History Series ; Volume 9
• VerfasserIn: Shaughnessy, Edward,
• 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.

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.

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.