The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

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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 transfo...

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Main Author: Shaughnessy, Edward (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2022
Subjects:
Fortune-telling & divination
Classical texts
Oriental & Indian philosophy
China
BCE to c 500 CE
archaeology
Chinese
Classic of Poetry
cosmology
decision making
divination
hexagrams
history
I Ching
milfoil
omens
oracle bones
oracles
philosophy
prediction
Shi jing
sortilege
textual
unearthed manuscripts
Zhou dynasty
Zhou Yi
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9789004513945
9789004503670
Access:Open Access

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