Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes): Themes, Imagery, Expressions, and Rhetoric

by Geoffrey Redmond

The 3,000 year old I Ching is the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic. Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes) incorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how the Zhouyi (the ancient textual layer of the I Ching) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted compendium of divination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350078174
• ISBN13: 9781350078178
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"