Dao Companion to the Book of Changes
Description
For the first time in English, this volume provides both general interest readers and specialists the full scope of current scholarship on the Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching or Yijing. In order to achieve this, the book addresses three fundamental issues: the relationship between the sixty-four hexagrams and the Ten Wings (seven pieces of early commentarial writings); the disparate approaches to interpreting the text in Imperial China; and the transformation of the text into a global classic since WWI. With thirty-five chapters, this volume not only deepens one's scholastic understanding of the Book of Changes but also guides the reader in actual practice.
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Tze-ki Hon is Professor Emeritus at State University of New York at Geneseo. He specializes in the philosophy of change in the Yijing and the cultural history of China. Over the last three decades, he wrote four books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005), The Allure of the Nation (2013), Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (with Geoffrey Redmond, 2014), and Revolution as Restoration (2014). He edited (or co-edited) seven volumes: The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China (2007), Beyond the May 4th Paradigm (2008), The Decade of the Great War (2014), Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017), Cold War Cities (2022), The Other Yijing (2022), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War (2025), and Contemporary Interpretations and Readings of the Yijing (2025). His articles have appeared in Journal of Chinese Philosophy , Modern China, Monumenta Serica, and Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.
Content
PART ONE: THE ZHOUYI The Divinatory Corpus.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Evolution of the Zhouyi Text: A Historical-Critical Study of Recent Archaeological Findings.- Chapter 3 The Shuzi Gua Corpus: A Historico-statistical study.- Chapter 4 Divination, Numerology, and Moral Cultivation: The Threefold Development of Yi Learning in Early China.- Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Change from a Philological Perspective: Polysemy of the Yijing Text and Commentaries.- Chapter 6 Inquiring Into the Primary Model: Onto-Hermeneutics in the Yijing and Interpretation of Divination.- Chapter 7 Discovering the Dao: The Philosophical Progression from the Zhouyi, through Laozi and Zhuangzi, to the Xici- Chapter 8 Repurposed Mythology Versus Repurposed Divination: The Zhouyi as Blueprint of Philosophical Development in Early China.- Chapter 9 The Book of Changes and the Process Cosmology of the Xicizhuan ???.- Chapter 10 The Humanism of the Xici: Tian Ren He Yi and the Self-Completing Animal.- PART TWO: THE YIJING The Xiangshu and Yili Schools.- Chapter 11 The Han Yi Tradition: From Prognosis on Anomalies to Image-Numerology.- Chapter 12 Jiaoshi Yilin ????: A Han Divination Manual.- Chapter 13 The Apocryphal of the Changes in the Eastern Han (25-220 CE).- Chapter 14 Overcoming Fear and Anxiety: Wang Bi's Commentary to the Changes.- Chapter 15 Xuanxue and the Construction of Sanxuan ??: A Paradigmatic Reappraisal.- Chapter 16 Song Literati's Use of the Yijing to (Not) Predict the Future.- Chapter 17 Strategy and Submission to Principle in the Commentary of Cheng Yi.- Chapter 18 Zhu Xi's Reading of the Yijing- Chapter 19 The Philosophy of Intentionality: A New Interpretation of the Book of Changes.- Chapter 20 The Book of Changes and Neidan (Internal Alchemy).- Chapter 21 Change and Flourishing: The Yijing vs. Huayan Buddhism.- Chapter 22 Yin-yang Based Chinese Medicine and the Zhouyi.- Chapter 23 Yijing-Related Concepts and Symbols in Yi History and Culture.- Chapter 24 The Paradigm Shifts in the Changes studies of Qing China.- Chapter 25 Zhouyi and the Historiography of Republican China.- Chapter 26 Two Masters in Hangzhou: An Ethnographic Study of Divination in 2010s China.- Chapter 27 Interpreting the Zhouyi from the Perspective of Modern Metaphor Theory (MMT).- PART THREE: THE TRAVELS OF THE CHANGES- Chapter 28 Reception of the Classic of Changes in the Western World, Roots in the 17th-18th Centuries.- Chapter 29 The "Sacred" Book of China: A Comparative Study of Thomas McClatchie's and James Legge's Yijing Translations.- Chapter 30 The Three Images of Changes: Yi King, I Ching and Zhouyi.- Chapter 31 Richard Wilhelm's I Ging and Weimer Germany.- Chapter 32 Going Beyond the Book of Wisdom Approach: The Yiing Studies in the USA from 1980 to 2020.- Chapter 33 Ching in American Science Fiction: Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (1962).- Chapter 34 The Way (Dao ?) of Changes (Yi ?) in the Baltic Countries.- Chapter 35 Afterword: Traveling with the Changes.