He is the author of The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127. Tze-ki Hon is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has lectured extensively in Asia, Europe, and North America. Yinandyangare relative and changing attributes that interact constantly.Firm and dominant behaviors areyang, weak and subordinate areyin.Yangandyinflow constantly,yangmutates intoyinand vice- versa. Yangline Masculine, active, light, hot, hard. His research concerns systematic cosmological thought in the ancient and modern world, using the ancient Zhouyi as a primary source His six published books include Science and Asian Spiritual Traditions. Figure Description Attributes Yinline Feminine, passive, dark, cold, soft. Geoffrey Redmond's dual background is in textual criticism, which he studied at the University of Virginia under the eminent philologist Fredson Bowers, and biomedical science, which he studied at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities.
Now anyone with a serious interest can understand a text that continues to have a decisive influence on Chinese and world culture three thousand years after its original composition.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden. Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes ) makes this important classic accessible to a broad readership, thus providing a crucial service for those interested in China, early civilization, and world religion. Thus, Redmond and Hon mediate between the two extreme views of the classic: a source of timeless ancient wisdom on the one hand, and a historical curiosity on the other.
Rather than dismissing the text's popular association with divination, they explain why this mode of human thought has persisted for millennia. The teaching approaches described will foreground the otherness of the classic, yet engage the interests of twenty-first-century students. primal power, which is light-giving, active, strong, and of the spirit. To facilitate introducing the classic to students, the necessary background is provided for university teachers and students, even non-China specialists. The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines. Geoffrey Redmond and Tze-Ki Hon present an up-to-date survey of recent studies including reconstruction of the early meanings, excavated manuscripts, the New Culture Movement, and the Cultural Revolution. Recent scholarship has radically altered our understanding of this foundational work.
Still widely read in China, it has become a countercultural classic in the West. Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes ) offers a comprehensive study at a time when interest in Asian philosophy and the culture of China is on the rise. Assembled from fragments with many obscure allusions, it was the subject of ingenious, but often conflicting, interpretations over nearly three thousand years. Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the world's ancient classics.