Intro
Foreword: Globalizing and Localizing the Yijing
References
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Contributors
1 Brief Introduction: Welcome to the World of Global Yijing
References
Part IGlobal Understanding of the Multiple Meanings of the Yijing
2 Zhu Xi's Conception of Yijing Divination as Spiritual Practice
1 Introduction
2 Divination and Sacrifice
3 Confucian Ritual in the Song
3.1 Sacrifice
3.2 Divination
4 Divination and Sagehood
References
3 Reexamining the English Translation of the Yijing

1 Introduction
2 Issues in the Translations of the Yijing Text
3 From Variation to Polysemy
4 Closing the Hermeneutic Circle?: From Language to Philosophy in the Yijing
5 Concluding Remarks
References
4 Historicizing the Yijing in the Anglophone World
1 Introduction
2 The Yijing as Moral Teachings of the Shang-Zhou Transition
3 The Zhouyi as a Bronze Age Document
4 Concluding Remarks
References
5 The Problem of Language and Reality in the Xici and Plato's Cratylus
1 Introduction
2 The Philosophical Context of Ancient Greece

3 Language and Metaphysics in Plato's Cratylus
4 The Philosophical Framework of the Xici
5 Language and Reality in the Xici
6 Conclusion
References
Part IIThe Yijing in Christianity and Modernization in Modern Asia
6 The Early Transmission of the Yijing and the Figurists' Renditions
1 Introduction
2 The Yijing's Early Encounter with the West
2.1 A Brief History of the Yijing Meeting the West
2.2 Ricci's Accommodation and Synthesis Policy
2.3 Characteristics of the Early Exegesis of the Yijing
3 Jesuit Translations and Figurism

3.1 The Role and Impact of Figurism
3.2 French Figurists and Their Translations
4 Different Renditions of Hexagram #15 Qian
5 Counter-Figurism Translations
6 Concluding Remarks
References
7 Thomas McClatchie's Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing
1 Introduction
2 Overview of the Missionary Studies of the Yijing
3 McClatchie's Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing
3.1 Qian and Kun: "Phallic God of Heathendom" and "Hermaphroditic Shang-Te"
3.2 Shangdi: "Linga and the Yoni of the Hindus"
3.3 Shangdi: "Jupiter" and "Bel of Ancient Babylon."

4 The Rise of Comparative Mythology and Religion
5 Sequel to the "Term Question" Debate
6 Missionary Critique of McClatchie's Interpretation
7 Concluding Remarks
References
8 Nemoto Michiaki's Use of the Yijing in Meiji State Ideology
1 Introduction
2 The Making of Nemoto's Yijing Scholarship
3 Nemoto's Reading of the Yijing and Meiji Ideology
4 Concluding Analysis
References
9 The Yijing in Twentieth-Century China
1 Introduction
2 The Path of China's Modernization
3 Historicizing the Yijing
4 The Zhouyi Craze
5 Concluding Remarks
References