This is a study of the development of the Yijing in China from the earliest times to the present. Drawing on recent scholarship in both Western and Asian langua
Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and
Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image
How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the world The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three tho