Stalk Divination - A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from fourth century BCE China called the Stalk Divination Method. The manual presents a competing way of interpreting trigrams to the Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching) that was lost over time.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• General Principles of Shifa Interpretation


• Reflections of Shifa-style Divination in Other Texts


• Transcription and Translation

About the author

C.A. Cook is Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Lehigh University.She specializes in excavated texts of BCE China and has published in English and Chinese (under the name Ke Heli)

Zhao Lu is Research Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studies the creation and transmission of knowledge in early imperial and early medieval China.

Summary

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from fourth century BCE China called the Stalk Divination Method. The manual presents a competing way of interpreting trigrams to the Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching) that was lost over time.

Additional text

Stalk Divination has accomplished the goal of introducing an important text to an Anglophone audience. With a comprehensive glossary, a detailed chart of the Shifa trigrams and their correlations, a supplementary table of correlations compared to the Zhouyi hexagrams, extensive notes, and a bibliography, Stalk Divination is a useful resource for anyone interested in the study of Chinese divination methods in pre-imperial times.

Product details

• Assisted by: C A Cook (Editor), C. A. Cook (Editor), Zhao Lu (Editor), C A Cook (Translation), C. A. Cook (Translation), Zhao Lu (Translation), C. A. Cook (Editor and translation), Zhao Lu (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2017
• EAN: 9780190648459
• ISBN: 978-0-19-064845-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Ancient, Sacred texts, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings