Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World

“To students and scholars of the Yijing, The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World is a treasure chest of inspired chapters in which much new information comes to light. To everybody else interested in cross-cultural exchange, the book is not only a valuable contribution that goes beyond the narrower confines of Yijing studies but also a wonderful example of the range and wealth of insights and information that may be gained when the Yijing serves as the focal point.” (Bent Nielsen, Dao, Vol. 21 (2), June, 2022)

• Acknowledgments.- Preface.- Part I: Modernizing the Yijing.- Yijing and the Nation-State: Interpretations of Hexagrams in Twentieth Century China.- Nemoto Michiaki’s Use of the Yijing in Meiji Ideology.- Part II: Translating the Yijing.- Reexamining English Translation of the Yijing.- Philosophy of Language in the Yijing and the Problem of Translation.- Part III: Interpreting the Yijing.- Thomas McClatchie’s Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing.- Richard Wilhelm’s Book of Changes and the Science of the Mind.- Part IV: Westernizing the Yijing.- The Encounter of the “Symbolic Chinese Science of Yijing” with Western Modern Science in France during the Interwar Period.- The I Ching and the Western Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.- The Historical Reconstruction of the Yijing in the West since the 1980s.- Epilogue.