TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hon,Tze-Ki
TI  - The Other Yijing: The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life
T2  - Prognostication in History Series
SN  - 9789004500037
AV  - CB425 .O844 2022 
U1  - 737 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Yi jing
KW  - Civilization
KW  - China-Civilization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - This book explains the different ways that the Yijing (Book of Changes) was used in Chinese society. It demonstrates that the Yijing was a living text used by the educated elite and the populace to address their fear and anxiety
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