The Composition of the Zhouyi

The Composition of the Zhouyi PDF Author: Edward Louis Shaughnessy
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Category : Yi jing
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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The Composition of the Zhouyi

The Composition of the Zhouyi PDF Author: Edward Louis Shaughnessy
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Category : Yi jing
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Changing

Changing PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780976751205
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Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Before Confucius

Before Confucius PDF Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791433775
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry, and attempts to restore their original meanings.

The Book of Changes (Zhouyi)

The Book of Changes (Zhouyi) PDF Author:
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700714919
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Modern research has revealed the Book of Changes to be a royal divination manual of the Zhou state (500100 BC). This new translation synthesizes the results of modern study, presenting the work in its historical context. The first book to render original Chinese rhymes into rhymed English.

Unearthing the Changes

Unearthing the Changes PDF Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231533306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest—the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi—dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text's original circulation. The Guicang, or Returning to Be Stored, reflects another ancient Chinese divination tradition based on hexagrams similar to those of the Yi jing. In 1993, two manuscripts were found in a third-century B.C.E. tomb at Wangjiatai that contain almost exact parallels to the Guicang's early quotations, supplying new information on the performance of early Chinese divination. Finally, the Fuyang Zhou Yi was excavated from the tomb of Xia Hou Zao, lord of Ruyin, who died in 165 B.C.E. Each line of this classic is followed by one or more generic prognostications similar to phrases found in the Yi jing, indicating exciting new ways the text was produced and used in the interpretation of divinations. Unearthing the Changes details the discovery and significance of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi, the Wangjiatai Guicang, and the Fuyang Zhou Yi, including full translations of the texts and additional evidence constructing a new narrative of the Yi jing's writing and transmission in the first millennium B.C.E. An introduction situates the role of archaeology in the modern attempt to understand the Classic of Changes. By showing how the text emerged out of a popular tradition of divination, these newly unearthed manuscripts reveal an important religious dimension to its evolution.

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics PDF Author: Martin Svensson Ekström
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438495404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited by Confucius himself. Despite their enormous importance for Confucianism and Chinese civilization, the 305 odes have for millennia also puzzled readers. Why did the Sage include in the Canon apparently lewd poems about women promising men to "hitch up" their skirts and "wade the river," and men "tossing and turning in bed" yearning for young women? What did the innumerable representations of plants, beasts, and birds, and of various climactic and astronomical phenomena, signify beyond their immediate function as natural descriptions? One such puzzled reader was Mao Heng, a learned Confucian employed at a minor court in the mid-second century BCE. The object of this study is the Commentary that Mao composed on the Odes, and in particular the hermeneutic tool—the xing—that he invented to explain the figurality and tropes at play in them. Mao's "xingish" interpretation of the Odes is both genuinely hermeneutic, in that it explains the rhetorical organization of these poems, and thoroughly ideological, since it allows Mao to transform them into Confucian dogma. The book also argues that the xing, content, function, and cultural importance, is comparable to the Aristotelian concept of metaphor (metaphora), and that the xing, the Odes, and the practice of shi (Chinese "poetry") demand an intercultural, "comparative" reading for a more nuanced understanding.

I Ching

I Ching PDF Author: Edward Hacker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094073X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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With over one thousand entries covering a diverse range of sources including books, articles, unpublished dissertations, taped lectures, devices and software, this is the most comprehensive annotated bibliography of English works on the I Ching. This book will be indispensable for all scholars of the I Ching, and an invaluable resource for those interested in this classic Chinese book. Follow this link www.zhouyi.com to editor Lorraine Patsco's massive I Ching web bibliography featuring over 2500 I Ching-related websites

The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes PDF Author: Edward Shaughnessy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513949
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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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.

The Mandate of Heaven

The Mandate of Heaven PDF Author: S J Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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The Mandate of Heaven was originally given to King Wen in the 11th century BC. King Wen is credited with founding the Zhou dynasty after he received the Mandate from Heaven to attack and overthrow the Shang dynasty. King Wen is also credited with creating the ancient oracle known as the Yijing or Book of Changes. This book validates King Wen's association with the Changes. It uncovers in the Changes a record of a total solar eclipse that was witnessed at King Wen's capital of Feng by his son King Wu, shortly after King Wen had died (before he had a chance to launch the full invasion). The sense of this eclipse as an actual event has been overlooked for three millennia. It provides an account of the events surrounding the conquest of the Shang and founding of the Zhou dynasty that has never been told. It shows how the earliest layer of the Book of Changes (the Zhouyi) has preserved a hidden history of the Conquest.

Dream Cultures

Dream Cultures PDF Author: David Shulman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352599
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces constitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.