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The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World

Cross-cultural Interpretations and Interactions

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

    1. Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

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  • The first academic book in English on the Yijing comprising cross-cultural perspectives
  • Written by leading scholars of the Yijing from the US, France, Sweden, China and Hong Kong
  • Highlights the transformation and application of the Yijing in different cultural traditions

Part of the book series: Chinese Culture (CHINESE, volume 4)

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This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives. It focuses on how the Yijing has been used to support ideologies, converted into knowledge, and assimilated into global cultures in the modern period, transported from the Sinosphere to British, American and French cultural traditions, travelling from East Asia to Europe and the United States. The book provides conceptualised narratives and cross-cultural analyses of the global popularisation and local assimilation of the Yijing, highlighting the transformation and application of the Yijing in different cultural traditions, and demonstrating how it acquired different meanings and took on different roles in the context of a global setting. In presenting a novel contribution to understandings of the multifaceted nature of the Yijing, this book is essential reading for scholarsand students interested in the 'Classic of Changes'. It is also a useful reference for those studying Chinese culture, Asian philosophy, East Asian studies, and translation studies.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Brief Introduction: Welcome to the World of Global Yijing

    • Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
    Pages 1-5

  3. Global Understanding of the Multiple Meanings of the Yijing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Zhu Xi’s Conception of Yijing Divination as Spiritual Practice

      • Joseph A. Adler
      Pages 9-24

    3. Reexamining the English Translation of the Yijing

      • Dennis Kat-hung Cheng
      Pages 25-40

    4. Historicizing the Yijing in the Anglophone World

      • Li-jing Wu
      Pages 41-61

    5. The Problem of Language and Reality in the Xici and Plato’s Cratylus

      • Rickard Gustavsson
      Pages 63-81

  4. The Yijing in Christianity and Modernization in Modern Asia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. The Early Transmission of the Yijing and the Figurists’ Renditions

      • Ming-che Lee
      Pages 85-106

    3. Thomas McClatchie’s Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing

      • John Tsz-pang Lai
      Pages 107-121

    4. Nemoto Michiaki’s Use of the Yijing in Meiji State Ideology

      • Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
      Pages 123-137

    5. The Yijing in Twentieth-Century China

      • Tze-ki Hon
      Pages 139-152
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“To students and scholars of the Yijing, The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World is a treasure chest of inspired chapters in which much new information comes to light. To everybody else interested in cross-cultural exchange, the book is not only a valuable contribution that goes beyond the narrower confines of Yijing studies but also a wonderful example of the range and wealth of insights and information that may be gained when the Yijing serves as the focal point.” (Bent Nielsen, Dao, Vol. 21 (2), June, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-cultural Interpretations and Interactions

  • Editors: Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

  • Series Title: Chinese Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6228-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6227-7Published: 27 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6230-7Published: 27 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6228-4Published: 26 February 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-9755

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-9763

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 221

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Comparative Religion, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, general, Religious Studies, general

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