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Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching
By (Author) Kidder Smith
By (author) Peter K. Bol
By (author) Joseph A. Adler
By (author) Don J. Wyatt
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy
299.51282
Hardback
286
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and as a source of essential ideas about the nature of heaven, earth, and humankind. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Sung dynasty literati turne