Coping with the Future : Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Michael Lackner -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Michael Lackner -- Part 1 -- Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant -- Chapter 1 -- A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination -- Marco Caboara -- Chapter 2 -- Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du -- Bent Nielsen -- Chapter 3 -- The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China -- Paul W. Kroll -- Chapter 4 -- Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China -- Vincent Durand-Dastès -- Part 2 -- Divination and Religions -- Chapter 5 -- A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon -- Esther-Maria Guggenmos -- Chapter 6 -- The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources -- Dominic Steavu -- Chapter 7 -- Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau -- Anne C. Klein -- Part 3 -- Divination and Politics -- Chapter 8 -- Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric -- Martin Kern -- Chapter 9 -- Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea -- Kwon Soo Park -- Part 4 -- Divination and Individual -- Chapter 10 -- Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang's Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge -- Hsien-huei Liao -- Chapter 11 -- Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination -- Yung Sik Kim -- Chapter 12 -- From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China -- Stéphanie Homola -- Chapter 13 -- Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea -- Jennifer Jung-Kim -- Part 5 -- Mantic Arts: When East Meets West -- Chapter 14.

Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture -- Che-Chia Chang -- Chapter 15 -- Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest's Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts -- Pingyi Chu -- Chapter 16 Li and Lackner -- Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China -- Fan Li and Michael Lackner -- Chapter 17 -- Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea -- Yong Hoon Jun -- Part 6 -- Reflections on Mantic Arts -- Chapter 18 -- How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China -- Andrea Bréard -- Chapter 19 -- Correlating Time Within One's Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese "Chronomancy" Techniques -- Matthias Hayek -- Chapter 20 -- The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea -- Sanghak Oh -- Index.

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers contributions to various practical and theoretical aspects of divination from antiquity to the present in East Asia.

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