Vol. 9 of
“Prognostication in History”
Book Title:

The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes 

Author(s)/Editor(s):

Edward L. Shaughnessy

About the Book:

The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature.
This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics.
The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were produced and how they were understood at the time.

About the Authors:

Edward L. Shaughnessy is the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has published more than 20 books and over 200 scholarly articles on all aspects of ancient China’s literary heritage.

Biographical information of the Book:

Shaughnessy, Edward. The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes. Leiden: Brill, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513945

Open Access:

✅ Yes (link to the book)

ISBN: 978-90-04-50367-0
Publication Date: 18 Aug 2022
Link to the Publisher:

 Brill 

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