The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World

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.

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

Klappentext

This edited volume 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 forscholars and 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.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments.- Preface.- Part I: Modernizing the Yijing.- Yijing and the Nation-State: Interpretations of Hexagrams in Twentieth Century China.- ** Nemoto Michiaki's Use of the Yijing in Meiji Ideology.- Part II: Translating the Yijing.- Reexamining English Translation of the Yijing.- Philosophy of Language in the Yijing and the Problem of Translation.- Part III: Interpreting the Yijing.- Thomas McClatchie's Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing.- Richard Wilhelm's Book of Changes and the Science of the Mind.- Part IV: Westernizing the Yijing.- The Encounter of the Symbolic Chinese Science of Yijing with Western Modern Science in France during the Interwar Period.- The I Ching and the Western Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.- The Historical Reconstruction of the Yijing in the West since the 1980s.- Epilogue.