The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50367-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1042 g

Reihe: Prognostication in History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaughnessy, Edward L

Shaughnessy, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Edward L. Shaughnessy is the Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China at the University of Chicago. He has published more than 20 books and over 200 scholarly articles on all aspects of ancient China’s literary heritage.