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Richard J. Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I-
Ching, or Classic of Changes) and its Evolution in China (Charlottesville, Va.:
University of Virginia Press, 2008).
CUHK RELS 5331 Special Topic in Religious Studies I
Winter Term 2013
Learning Outcomes
Students will be introduced to the Yi jing and especially its early history and related
cultural context. In particular, students will have an opportunity to learn about Western
approaches to the early history of the text.
Learning Activities
Assessment Scheme
Learning Resources
All required readings and many supplementary readings will be made available on
CUHKs Blackboard site.
Course Schedule
Paul L-M Serruys, The Language of the Shang Oracle Inscriptions, Toung Pao
60 (1974): 12-120.
Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos, Chapter One: The Birth of the Changes, pp. 7-
30.
Marc Kalinowski. Diviners and Astrologers under the Eastern Zhou: Transmitted
Texts and Recent Archaeological Discoveries. Tr. Margaret McIntosh. In John
Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski ed. Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang
through Han (1250 BC-220 AD). 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Vol. I, pp. 341-96.
6 (2011): 71-89.
Waley, Arthur. The Book of Changes. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities 5 (1933): 12142.
Ed Shaughnessy, The Writing of the Xici Zhuan an (sic) the Making of the
Yijing, in Measuring Historical Heat: Event, Performance, and Impact in China
and the West: Symposium in Honour of Rudolf G. Wagner on His 60th Birthday,
Heidelberg, November 3rd-4th 2001, at http://www.sino.uni-
heidelberg.de/conf/symposium2.pdf.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong places very high importance on honesty in
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and plagiarism. Any related offence will lead to disciplinary action including termination
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CUHK RELS 5331 Special Topic in Religious Studies I
Winter Term 2013
programmes should be submitted via VeriGuide with effect from September 2008:
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make himself/herself familiar with the content of this website and thereby help avoid any
practice that would not be acceptable.
References:
Legge, James. I Ching: Book of Changes. Edited by Chu Chai and Winberg Chai.
New York: Bantam Books, 1964 (rpt. of 1899 Clarendon Press Sacred
Books of the East edition with added Introduction).
Liu Dajun and Lin Zhongjun. The I Ching: Text and Annotated Translation.
Translated by Fu Youde. Revised by Frank Lauran. Jinan: Shandon
Friendship Publishing House, 1995.
Lynn, Richard John trans. The Classic of Change: A New Translation of the I
Ching as Interpreted by Wang Pi. New York: Columbia University Press,
1994.
Rutt, Richard. Zhouyi: The Book of Changes. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press,
1996.
Adler, Joseph. Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change (I-hseh chi-
meng). New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2002.
Hon, Tze-ki. The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati
Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127. Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, 2005.
Nylan, Michael. The Elemental Changes: The Ancient Chinese Companion to the
I Ching. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1994.
Smith, Kidder Jr., Peter K. Bol, Joseph A. Adler, and Don J. Wyatt, Sung Dynasty
Uses of the I Ching. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1990.
Wilhelm, Hellmut. Heaven, Earth and Man in the Book of Changes. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1977.
Lippiello, Tiziana. Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three
Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties. Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, 2001.
Ngo, Van Xuyet. Divination, magie et politique dans la Chine ancienne. Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 1976.
Nylan, Michael. The Five Confucian Classics. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001.
Fendos, George Jr. Fei Chih's Place in the Development of I-Ching Studies"
(Ph.D. diss.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988).
Goodman, Howard Lazar. Exegetes and Exegeses of the Book of Changes in the
Third Century AD: Historical and Scholastic Contexts for Wang Pi. Ph.D.
diss.: Princeton University, 1985.
Meyer, Andrew Seth. The Correct Meaning of the Five Classics and the
Intellectual Foundations of the Tang. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University,
1999.
Nielsen, Bent. The Qian zuo du: A Late Han Dynasty (202 BCAD 220) Study
of the Book of Changes, Yi jing. Ph.D. diss., University of Copenhagen,
1995.
Schulz, Larry James. Lai Chih-te (15251604) and the Phenomenology of the
Classic of Change (I-Ching). Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1982.
Marriage, Divorce and Revolution: Reading between the Lines of the Book of
Changes, Journal of Asian Studies 51.3 (August 1992): 587-599.
Translated into Chinese as "Jiehun lihun yu geming--Zhou Yi de yan wai
zhi yi , -- " (translated by Li Hengmei
andGuo Mingqin ), Zhouyi yanjiu 20 (1994): 45-
57.
I Ching, The Classic of Changes: The First English Translation of the Newly
Discovered Second-Century B.C. Mawangdui Texts. New York: Ballantine
Press, 1997.
Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1997.
The Fuyang Zhou Yi and the Making of a Divination Manual, Asia Major, 3rd
ser. 14.1 (2001 [actually 2003]): 7-18.
Zhou Yi Yuan heng li zhen xin jie: Jianlun Zhou dai xi zhen xiguan yu Zhou Yi
gua yao ci de xingcheng
(A new explanation of the phrase
Yuan heng li zhen in the Zhou Changes: Together with a discussion of
the practice of repeat divination in the Zhou period and the formation of
the hexagram and line statements of the Zhou Changes), Zhou Yi yanjiu
(Studies of the Zhou Changes) 2010.5: 3-15.
Xing yu Xiang: Jian lun zhanbu he shige de guanxi ji qi dui Shi jing he Zhou
Yi de xingcheng zhi yingxiang :
(Arousal and Image:
A simple discussion of the relationship between divination and song and
of its influence on the formation of the Classic of Poetry and the Zhou
Changes), Jianbo (Bamboo and silk) 6 (2011): forthcoming.
Fuyang Han jian Zhou Yi jiance xingzhi ji shuxie geshi zhi lice
(Estimating the nature and written
form of the Fuyang Zhou Changes bamboo strips), Jianbo (Bamboo
and silk) 6 (2011): forthcoming.
Chongxie Rujia jingdian: Tantan zai gudai xieben wenhua zhong chaoxie de
quanshi zuoyong
(Rewriting the Confucian classics: On the hermeneutical function of
copying in the manuscript culture of antiquity), in Jingdian de xingcheng,
liuchuan yu quanshi (The formation,
transmission and hermeneutics of the classics), vol. 2, ed. Lin Qingzhang
and Jiang Qiuhua (Taipei: Taiwan Xuesheng shuju, 2008),
in press.