Other Yijing

Tze-ki Hon, Ph.D. (1992), University of Chicago, is Professor of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. He published monographs and articles on Chinese philosophy and classical studies, including The Yijing and Chinese Politics (SUNY Press, 2005).

"this volume should be praised as a refreshing examination of a crucial text in the study of Chinese religion. It comfortably achieves what it sets out to accomplish, casting the Yìjīng in a new scholarly light that will undoubtedly generate further discussion and scholarship."- Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review, 22 (2022).

• A Note on StyleList of Tables and IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: From “Historical Turn” to “Everyday Life Yijing”Tze-ki HonPart 1 The Unique Voice of the Yijing1 Stalk and Other Divination Traditions before the Changes Canon: Views from Newly Discovered TextsConstance A. Cook and Andrea Bréard2 The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Manual in Han ChinaZhao Lu3 Yijing Divination and Religion during the Tang DynastyXing WangPart 2 The Yijing Prediction Practices4 Predicting Success: Song Literati’s Uses of the Changes in DivinationLiao Hsien-huei5 Prediction Based on the Past: Yang Wanli’s (1127–1206) Commentary on the ChangesStéphane Feuillas6 Yijing and Medicine: Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial ChinaChang Chia-Feng7 Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the QingAndrea BréardPart 3 Yijing and Modernity8 Predicting a Regime Change: The Politicization of the Yijing in Twentieth Century ChinaTze-ki Hon9 Simplified Procedure and Extended Divination Objects: A Study of Plum Blossom Yi NumerologyTao Yingna10 Reducing Uncertainty: Six Lines Prediction in Contemporary ChinaWilliam MatthewsIndex