The "I Ching" : a biography / Richard J. Smith.

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Smith, Richard J

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Lives of great religious booksPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 278 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400841622
1400841623
1283456990
9781283456999
1782685634
9781782685630
9786613456991
6613456993

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Additional physical formats: Print version:Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-: I Ching.DDC classification:

299.51282 23

LOC classification:

PL2464.Z7

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; The Hexagrams; Chronology of Chinese Dynasties; Preliminary Remarks and Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: The Domestic Evolution of the Yijing; CHAPTER 1 Genesis of the Changes; CHAPTER 2 The Making of a Classic; CHAPTER 3 Interpreting the Changes; PART TWO: The Transnational Travels of the Yijing; CHAPTER 4 The Changes in East Asia; CHAPTER 5 The Westward Travels of the Changes; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z.

Summary: The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became on.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became on.

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