{"product_id":"the-origin-and-early-development-of-the-zhou-changes-9789004503670","title":"The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature.   This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics.   The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were produced and how they were understood at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Conventions    Introduction    Part 1 The Context    1 The Zhou Changes: Received Text and Early Manuscripts    2 The Philosophy of Divination in Ancient China    3 Turtle-Shell Divination    4 Milfoil Divination    5 Milfoil Divination with the Zhou Changes    6 The Poetic Imagination    Part 2 The Text    7 The Hexagram    8 The Hexagram Statement    9 The Line Statement    10 Intra-hexagram and Inter-hexagram Structures of Hexagram Texts    11 The Hexagram Sequence    12 From Divination to Philosophy    Works Cited  Index of Zhou Changes Lines  Index of Zhou Changes Hexagram and Line Statements Cited  General Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210835321175,"sku":"9789004503670","price":144.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origin-and-early-development-of-the-zhou-changes-9789004503670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}