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Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching

C. A. Cook, Zhao Lu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 aug 2017
This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching). The Shifa manual presents a competing method of interpreting the trigrams, the most basic elements of the distinctive sixty-four hexagrams in the Zhouyi. This newly discovered method looks at the combination of four trigrams as a fluid, changeable pattern or unit reflective of different circumstances in an elite man's life. Unlike the Zhouyi, this new manual provides case studies that explain how to read the trigram patterns for different topics. This method is unprecedented in early China and has left no trace in later Chinese divination traditions. Shifa must be understood then as a competing voice in the centuries before the Zhouyi became the hegemonic standard. The authors of this book have translated this new text and "cracked the code" of its logic. This new divination will change our understanding of Chinese divination and bring new light to Zhouyi studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190648459
ISBN-10: 0190648457
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 211 x 142 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Stalk Divination has accomplished the goal of introducing an important text to an Anglophone audience. With a comprehensive glossary, a detailed chart of the Shifa trigrams and their correlations, a supplementary table of correlations compared to the Zhouyi hexagrams, extensive notes, and a bibliography, Stalk Divination is a useful resource for anyone interested in the study of Chinese divination methods in pre-imperial times.

Notă biografică

C.A. Cook is Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Lehigh University.She specializes in excavated texts of BCE China and has published in English and Chinese (under the name Ke Heli)Zhao Lu is Research Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studies the creation and transmission of knowledge in early imperial and early medieval China.