Coping with the Future
Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia
Published on 7. December 2017
Book
Hardback
602 pages
978-90-04-34653-6 (ISBN)
Description
Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time.
The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.
The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.
Reviews / Votes
"Coping with the Future is a landmark study of divination in East Asia, mainly for its depth and breadth of scholarship, but also for the impact it will have in elucidating an esoteric subject for a wider audience. The Kaete Hamburger Center, under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to be commended for funding the studies published herein and we applaud Michael Lackner for the years of effort he has dedicated to this project. With this groundbreaking work, if not before, he has distinguished himself as a leader in the field."-Stephen L. Field, Trinity University, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.2 (2020)
"Written mainly by historians and cultural researchers, these papers address subjects that are scattered throughout various historical and geographic areas, offering short but detailed insights into aspects of divinatory practices. [...] This volume will be of great interest to every scholar studying East Asian practices of "fate exploration."
- Grzegorz Fraszczak, Religious Studies 47.2 (June 2021)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
944 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34653-6 (9789004346536)
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Person
Michael Lackner, Dr. phil. (1983), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, is Professor of Sinology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg. He has published monographs and many articles on China and co-edited Mapping meanings. The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China (Brill, 2004).
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Michael Lackner
Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant
1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination
?Marco Caboara
2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du
?Bent Nielsen
3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China
?Paul W. Kroll
4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China
?Vincent Durand-Dastes
Part 2: Divination and Religions
5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon
?Esther-Maria Guggenmos
6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi ? Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources
?Dominic Steavu*
7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau
?Anne C. Klein
Part 3: Divination and Politics
8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric
?Martin Kern
9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea
?Park Kwon Soo
Part 4: Divination and Individual
10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang's Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge
?Liao Hsien-huei
11 Chong Yak-yong on Yijing Divination
?Kim Yung Sik
12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China
?Stephanie Homola
13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea
?Jennifer Jung-Kim
Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West
14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture
?Che-chia Chang
15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest's Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts
?Chu Pingyi
16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China
?Li Fan and Michael Lackner
17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea
?Jun Yong Hoon
Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts
18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China
?Andrea Breard
19 Correlating Time Within One's Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese "Chronomancy" Techniques
?Matthias Hayek
20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea
?Oh Sanghak
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Michael Lackner
Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant
1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination
?Marco Caboara
2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du
?Bent Nielsen
3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China
?Paul W. Kroll
4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China
?Vincent Durand-Dastes
Part 2: Divination and Religions
5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon
?Esther-Maria Guggenmos
6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi ? Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources
?Dominic Steavu*
7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau
?Anne C. Klein
Part 3: Divination and Politics
8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric
?Martin Kern
9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea
?Park Kwon Soo
Part 4: Divination and Individual
10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang's Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge
?Liao Hsien-huei
11 Chong Yak-yong on Yijing Divination
?Kim Yung Sik
12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China
?Stephanie Homola
13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea
?Jennifer Jung-Kim
Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West
14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture
?Che-chia Chang
15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest's Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts
?Chu Pingyi
16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China
?Li Fan and Michael Lackner
17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea
?Jun Yong Hoon
Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts
18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China
?Andrea Breard
19 Correlating Time Within One's Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese "Chronomancy" Techniques
?Matthias Hayek
20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea
?Oh Sanghak
Index