Unearthing the Changes

Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16184-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 838 g

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text's original circulation. The Guicang, or Returning to Be Stored, reflects another ancient Chinese divination tradition based on hexagrams similar to those of the Yi jing. In 1993, two manuscripts were found in a third-century B.C.E. tomb at Wangjiatai that contain almost exact parallels to the Guicang's early quotations, supplying new information on the performance of early Chinese divination. Finally, the Fuyang Zhou Yi was excavated from the tomb of Xia Hou Zao, lord of Ruyin, who died in 165 B.C.E. Each line of this classic is followed by one or more generic prognostications similar to phrases found in the Yi jing, indicating exciting new ways the text was produced and used in the interpretation of divinations.

Unearthing the Changes details the discovery and significance of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi, the Wangjiatai Guicang, and the Fuyang Zhou Yi, including full translations of the texts and additional evidence constructing a new narrative of the Yi jing's writing and transmission in the first millennium B.C.E. An introduction situates the role of archaeology in the modern attempt to understand the Classic of Changes. By showing how the text emerged out of a popular tradition of divination, these newly unearthed manuscripts reveal an important religious dimension to its evolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaughnessy, Edward L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Divining the Past, Divining the Future: Archaeology and the Rediscovery of the Changes2. The Context, Content, and Significance of the Shanghai Museum Manuscript of the Zhou Yi3. Translation of the Shanghai Museum Manuscript of the Zhou Yi4. The Wangjiatai Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts of the Gui cang 5. Translation of the Gui cang Fragments6. The Fuyang Zhou Yi Manuscript7. Translation of the Fuyang Zhou Yi ManuscriptConclusions and ConjecturesNotesWorks CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Shaughnessy, Edward L.
Edward L. Shaughnessy is the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books including Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscriptions from Ancient China (The Chinese University Press, 2017) and Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts (Columbia University Press, 2014).

Edward L. Shaughnessy is the Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rewriting Early Chinese Texts and Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics; translator of I Ching, The Classic of Changes: The First English Translation of the Newly Discovered Second-Century B.C. Mawangdui Texts; and coeditor of The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.