Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China
Part One: Introduction to the Field
Published on 19. May 2022
Book
Hardback
570 pages
978-90-04-51127-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive book that presents the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China, from the early period of oracle bones to present-day fortune-tellers. It introduces what is out there in the field of Chinese divination and prognostication, and how we can further explore it especially through different disciplines. Eminent specialists outline the classifications of divination, recently excavated texts, the relationship between practitioners and clients, the place of the "occult" arts in cosmology, literature and religion, and the bureaucratic system.
Contributors are: Constance Cook, Richard J. Smith, Marc Kalinowski, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Lue Lingfeng, Liao Hsien-huei, Philip Clart, Fabrizio Pregadio, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Andrew Schonebaum, and Stephanie Homola.
Contributors are: Constance Cook, Richard J. Smith, Marc Kalinowski, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Lue Lingfeng, Liao Hsien-huei, Philip Clart, Fabrizio Pregadio, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Andrew Schonebaum, and Stephanie Homola.
Reviews / Votes
"The volume is well organized, thoughtfully introduced, and contains several massive and highly authoritative contributions that may serve as the starting point for new comparativist or sinological research. It also includes brief papers (Clart; Bokenkamp; Homola) that may interest undergraduates on their way into Chinese religion."- Barbara Hendrischke, Religious Studies Review 48.3 (September 2022)
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51127-9 (9789004511279)
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Persons
Michael Lackner, Dr. phil. (1983), University of Munich, is Professor of Chinese at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published monographs, edited volumes and many articles on Chinese intellectual history, including Coping with the Future. Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia (Brill, 2018).
Zhao Lu, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at New York University Shanghai. Working on Chinese intellectual and cultural history, he is the author of In Pursuit of the Great Peace (SUNY, 2019) and the coauthor (with Brandon Dotson and Constance Cook) of Dice and Gods on the Silk Road (Brill, 2021).
Zhao Lu, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at New York University Shanghai. Working on Chinese intellectual and cultural history, he is the author of In Pursuit of the Great Peace (SUNY, 2019) and the coauthor (with Brandon Dotson and Constance Cook) of Dice and Gods on the Silk Road (Brill, 2021).