The Other Yijing

Tze-ki Hon, Ph.D. (1992), University of Chicago, is Professor of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. He published monographs and articles on Chinese philosophy and classical studies, including The Yijing and Chinese Politics (SUNY Press, 2005).

A Note on Style

List of Tables and Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: From “Historical Turn” to “Everyday Life Yijing”

 Tze-ki Hon



Part 1 The Unique Voice of the Yijing



1 Stalk and Other Divination Traditions before the Changes Canon: Views from Newly Discovered Texts

 Constance A. Cook and Andrea Bréard



2 The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Manual in Han China

 Zhao Lu



3 Yijing Divination and Religion during the Tang Dynasty

 Xing Wang



Part 2 The Yijing Prediction Practices



4 Predicting Success: Song Literati’s Uses of the Changes in Divination

 Liao Hsien-huei



5 Prediction Based on the Past: Yang Wanli’s (1127–1206) Commentary on the Changes

 Stéphane Feuillas



6 Yijing and Medicine: Discussions of the Gate of Life in Late Imperial China

 Chang Chia-Feng



7 Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing

 Andrea Bréard



Part 3 Yijing and Modernity



8 Predicting a Regime Change: The Politicization of the Yijing in Twentieth Century China

 Tze-ki Hon



9 Simplified Procedure and Extended Divination Objects: A Study of Plum Blossom Yi Numerology

 Tao Yingna



10 Reducing Uncertainty: Six Lines Prediction in Contemporary China

 William Matthews



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