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Intro
Contents
A Note on Style
Tables and Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Charts
Notes on Contributors
Introduction. From "Historical Turn" to "Everyday Life Yijing" (HON)
1. The Historical Turn
2. The Unique Voice of the Yijing
3. The Yijing Prediction Practices
4. The Yijing and Modernity
5. Looking Ahead
Appendix 3: Names of the Sixty-four Hexagrams
Appendix 4: Ten Wings
Bibliography
Part 1. The Unique Voice of the Yijing
Chapter 1. Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts (COOK and BRÉARD)
1. The Issue of Numerical Gua
2. Early Bronze Age Examples and the Question of Cleromancy
5. Dyadic Lines
6. Survey of Divination Manuals with Gua
7. Conclusion: Divination Methodology Redux
Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Manual in Han China (ZHAO)
1. The Mandate of Heaven and the Legitimacy of Rule
2. Using Cosmology to Cure the State
3. Navigating the Cosmos through the Book of Changes
4. The Ramifications of the Cosmological Manual in the Eastern Han
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3. Yijing Divination and Religion during the Tang Dynasty (WANG)
1. Imperial Rules and Yijing Divination in the Tang Dynasty
2. Yijing Divination in Practice
3. Yijing and Religion during the Tang Dynasty
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part 2. The Yijing Prediction Practices
Chapter 4. Predicting Success: The Song Literati's Uses of the Changes in Divination (LIAO)
1. Three Characteristics of Changes Divination
2. Limitations and Challenges Related to Changes Divination
3. Legitimatizing Divination Based on the Changes
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography.
Chapter 5. Prediction Based on the Past: Yang Wanli's (1127-1206) Commentary on the Changes (FEUILLAS)
1. Yang Wanli and His Commentary
2. Using Historical Events to Elucidate The Book of Changes
3. History and Prediction of the Future: Some Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Chapter 6. Yijing and Medicine: Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial China (CHANG)
1. The Gate of Life
2. Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial China
3. The Development of the Human Body
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Chapter 7. Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing (BRÉARD)
1. Producing Gua: The Problem of "Dayan 50 Use 49"
3. Ordering the Gua: A Symbolic Algebra
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part 3. Yijing and Modernity
Chapter 8. Predicting a Regime Change: The Politicization of the Yijing in Twentieth-Century China (HON)
1. Radical Confucian Reformism
2. The Temporality of China's Development
3. The Hexagram Sequence and Linear Progress
4. "Tongren" as a Symbol of Political Breakthrough
5. "Qian" as a Symbol of Great Harmony
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 9. Simplified Procedure and Extended Divination Objects: A Study of Plum Blossom Yi Numerology (TAO)
1. Background
2. The Simplified Procedure
3. Prognostication Principles
4. Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Chapter 10. Reducing Uncertainty: Six Lines Prediction in Contemporary China (MATTHEWS)
1. The Revival of Yijing Divination
3. Six Lines Prediction in Practice: Two Cases
4. Example One: A Question of Personal Wealth
5. Analogical Transfer and the Creation of Cosmic Intimacy.
6. Example Two: Buying a New Shop and Making a Hospital Appointment
7. Contingency and Reduction
8. The Six Beasts
9. The Client's Fate
10. Eliciting Information from the Client
11. Relevance and Responsibility
12. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.
Contents
A Note on Style
Tables and Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Charts
Notes on Contributors
Introduction. From "Historical Turn" to "Everyday Life Yijing" (HON)
1. The Historical Turn
2. The Unique Voice of the Yijing
3. The Yijing Prediction Practices
4. The Yijing and Modernity
5. Looking Ahead
Appendix 3: Names of the Sixty-four Hexagrams
Appendix 4: Ten Wings
Bibliography
Part 1. The Unique Voice of the Yijing
Chapter 1. Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts (COOK and BRÉARD)
1. The Issue of Numerical Gua
2. Early Bronze Age Examples and the Question of Cleromancy
5. Dyadic Lines
6. Survey of Divination Manuals with Gua
7. Conclusion: Divination Methodology Redux
Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Manual in Han China (ZHAO)
1. The Mandate of Heaven and the Legitimacy of Rule
2. Using Cosmology to Cure the State
3. Navigating the Cosmos through the Book of Changes
4. The Ramifications of the Cosmological Manual in the Eastern Han
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3. Yijing Divination and Religion during the Tang Dynasty (WANG)
1. Imperial Rules and Yijing Divination in the Tang Dynasty
2. Yijing Divination in Practice
3. Yijing and Religion during the Tang Dynasty
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part 2. The Yijing Prediction Practices
Chapter 4. Predicting Success: The Song Literati's Uses of the Changes in Divination (LIAO)
1. Three Characteristics of Changes Divination
2. Limitations and Challenges Related to Changes Divination
3. Legitimatizing Divination Based on the Changes
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography.
Chapter 5. Prediction Based on the Past: Yang Wanli's (1127-1206) Commentary on the Changes (FEUILLAS)
1. Yang Wanli and His Commentary
2. Using Historical Events to Elucidate The Book of Changes
3. History and Prediction of the Future: Some Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Chapter 6. Yijing and Medicine: Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial China (CHANG)
1. The Gate of Life
2. Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial China
3. The Development of the Human Body
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Chapter 7. Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing (BRÉARD)
1. Producing Gua: The Problem of "Dayan 50 Use 49"
3. Ordering the Gua: A Symbolic Algebra
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part 3. Yijing and Modernity
Chapter 8. Predicting a Regime Change: The Politicization of the Yijing in Twentieth-Century China (HON)
1. Radical Confucian Reformism
2. The Temporality of China's Development
3. The Hexagram Sequence and Linear Progress
4. "Tongren" as a Symbol of Political Breakthrough
5. "Qian" as a Symbol of Great Harmony
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 9. Simplified Procedure and Extended Divination Objects: A Study of Plum Blossom Yi Numerology (TAO)
1. Background
2. The Simplified Procedure
3. Prognostication Principles
4. Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Chapter 10. Reducing Uncertainty: Six Lines Prediction in Contemporary China (MATTHEWS)
1. The Revival of Yijing Divination
3. Six Lines Prediction in Practice: Two Cases
4. Example One: A Question of Personal Wealth
5. Analogical Transfer and the Creation of Cosmic Intimacy.
6. Example Two: Buying a New Shop and Making a Hospital Appointment
7. Contingency and Reduction
8. The Six Beasts
9. The Client's Fate
10. Eliciting Information from the Client
11. Relevance and Responsibility
12. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.