The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes /

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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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.
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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.

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