...Stéphanie Homola Abstract Liu Zihua arrived in France in 1919 as part of the Sino-French Work-Study Movement. In 1940, he completed a PhD thesis in which he combined modern astronomy and the Yijing through “analogical reasoning” to discover a planet. After Liu went back to China in 1945, his...

...Ari Daniel Levine The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960–1127 . By Tze-Ki Hon . Albany : Stanford University of New York Press , 2005 . xi, 217 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005...

...Colin S. C. Hawes The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960–1127 . By Tze-Ki Hon . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . xiii , 217 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association...

...Richard John Lynn Figures de l'immanence: Pour une lecture philosophique de Yi king, le Classique du changement . [Figures of immanency: concerning a philosophical reading of the Yijing , the Classic of Changes ] . By François Jullien . Paris : Bernard Grasset , 1993 . 284 pp...

...Bent Nielsen Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I-Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China . By Richard J. Smith . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 2008 . xix , 393 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Edward L. Shaughnessy Abstract The enigmatic images contained in the Book of Changes ( Yijing or Zhouyi ) have been interpreted, since shortly after the final redaction of the text, to refer to universal themes, transforming a text that was originally used in divination into a repository of wisdom...

... in early China when its economy was transitioning from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and its sociopolitical system was shifting from small, self-sufficient communities to a large agrarian empire. Since the early 1980s, the study of the Yijing ( I Ching , or Book of Changes ) has grown...

... Chinese time. Whereas Western sinology has interpreted China's dynastic histories as evidence of a cyclical conception of time, Chen notes that the very preservation of historical records assumes that nothing lasts forever. As Chen demonstrates, passages from the Yijing and other early works accept...

... should also welcome this volume, if only because there are so few published studies of the region in English. CAMERON CAMPBELL University of California, Los Angeles The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960 1127. By TZE-KI HON. Albany...

... of immanency: concerning a philosophical reading of the Yijing, the Classic of Changes By FRANCOIS JULLIEN. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1993. 284 pp. In this book, Francois Jullien further explores the thought of Wang Fuzhi (161992), which also served as the focus of his earlier study: Proces ou creation: une...

... O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 609 Chapter 5 deals with the late Northern Song, a period of vicious factionalism. Hon focuses mainly on Cheng Yi s (1033 1107) commentary, with attention to the contrasting views of Su Shi (1037 1101). As with Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi saw the Yijing as encapsulating...

... in Traditional Chinese Society. By R I C H A R D J . S M I T H . Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991. xiii, 434 pp. $49.50. Encyclopedic in scope, Fortune-tellers and Philosophers catalogues how the Chinese selected auspicious days, foretold the future from the Yijing, moonblocks, and fortunetelling sticks...

...), the spiritual son and regent of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617 82), it treats the particular system of elemental divination ( byung-rtsis), a corpus of ultimately Chinese inspiration stemming from traditions relating to the Yijing. The work is therefore of considerable interest not just for the light...

... reputation as an accomplished exegete who wrote commentaries on the Laozi, the Yijing, and the Lunyu. It is also built on what Tang Yongtong has called the transition from cosmology to ontology, in which Wang Bi is said to have introduced a new mode B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 1115 of thinking known...

...." Only a skilled and complete translation can, I think, convey the spectacular vision of Xi Youji, or can convey, in Yu's words, "a profound sense of 'God's plenty.' Because the novel itself describes or exploits Ming beliefs in Five Agents Theory, Yijing lore, and popular demonology, as well...

... until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911—with one exception: Elman expressly excludes the ways in which scholars of the Chinese classic of the Changes ( Yijing ) used its patterns and calculations to help them understand the natural world (preface, xii). Why would he do that? Yijing analysis...

... University Press, 1994). Another problem is the organization of Figures de I'immanence, which follows a sequence of discussions designed by Jullien rather than the sequence either of the hexagram and ancillary texts of the Yijing or the organization of Wang Fuzhi's commentaries. Consequently, the book...

... of the Yijing in another two, and in many detailed studies of popular beliefs and practices. This latest work is ambitious: it seeks to delineate the entire culture of late imperial China, covering language and symbolic reference, patterns of thought, religious life, arts and crafts, literary trends...

... on the child's time of birth. Zeng's son even performed Yijing divination to determine the outcome of the negotiations his father was conducting after the 1870 Tianjin massacre. Still, Smith includes some details of popular practice. Anhui peasants hung a copy of the imperial calendar on sick-beds because...

... prophetic literature, what Jorgensen terms the “ Chŏng Kam nok corpus,” consists of deeply arcane texts likely composed by anonymous authors from the eighteenth century to perhaps the early twentieth century. They represent a hybrid of divination practices based on the Yijing , various understandings...