The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill nv
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Prognostication in history ;
Volume 9. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770720306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
