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Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)
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Recent scholarship has radically altered our understanding of this foundational work. Geoffrey Redmond and Tze-Ki Hon present an up-to-date survey of recent studies including reconstruction of the early meanings, excavated manuscripts, the New Culture Movement, and the Cultural Revolution. To facilitate introducing the classic to students, the necessary background is provided for university teachers and students, even non-China specialists. The teaching approaches described will foreground the otherness of the classic, yet engage the interests of twenty-first-century students. Rather than dismissing the texts popular association with divination, they explain why this mode of human thought has persisted for millennia. Thus, Redmond and Hon mediate between the two extreme views of the classic: a source of timeless ancient wisdom on the one hand, and a historical curiosity on the other.
Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) makes this important classic accessible to a broad readership, thus providing a crucial service for those interested in China, early civilization, and world religion. Now anyone with a serious interest can understand a text that continues to have a decisive influence on Chinese and world culture three thousand years after its original composition.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2014-10-01
Publication Date:
2014-10-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199766819
ISBN13:
9780199766819
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
536 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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