The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World: Cross-cultural Interpretations and Interactions

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Foreword: Globalizing and Localizing the Yijing References Acknowledgments Contents Editor and Contributors About the Editor Contributors 1 Brief Introduction: Welcome to the World of Global Yijing References Part IGlobal Understanding of the Multiple Meanings of the Yijing 2 Zhu Xi’s Conception of Yijing Divination as Spiritual Practice 1 Introduction 2 Divination and Sacrifice 3 Confucian Ritual in the Song 3.1 Sacrifice 3.2 Divination 4 Divination and Sagehood References 3 Reexamining the English Translation of the Yijing 1 Introduction 2 Issues in the Translations of the Yijing Text 3 From Variation to Polysemy 4 Closing the Hermeneutic Circle?: From Language to Philosophy in the Yijing 5 Concluding Remarks References 4 Historicizing the Yijing in the Anglophone World 1 Introduction 2 The Yijing as Moral Teachings of the Shang-Zhou Transition 3 The Zhouyi as a Bronze Age Document 4 Concluding Remarks References 5 The Problem of Language and Reality in the Xici and Plato’s Cratylus 1 Introduction 2 The Philosophical Context of Ancient Greece 3 Language and Metaphysics in Plato’s Cratylus 4 The Philosophical Framework of the Xici 5 Language and Reality in the Xici 6 Conclusion References Part IIThe Yijing in Christianity and Modernization in Modern Asia 6 The Early Transmission of the Yijing and the Figurists’ Renditions 1 Introduction 2 The Yijing’s Early Encounter with the West 2.1 A Brief History of the Yijing Meeting the West 2.2 Ricci’s Accommodation and Synthesis Policy 2.3 Characteristics of the Early Exegesis of the Yijing 3 Jesuit Translations and Figurism 3.1 The Role and Impact of Figurism 3.2 French Figurists and Their Translations 4 Different Renditions of Hexagram #15 Qian 5 Counter-Figurism Translations 6 Concluding Remarks References 7 Thomas McClatchie’s Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing 1 Introduction 2 Overview of the Missionary Studies of the Yijing 3 McClatchie’s Mythological Interpretation of the Yijing 3.1 Qian and Kun: “Phallic God of Heathendom” and “Hermaphroditic Shang-Te” 3.2 Shangdi: “Linga and the Yoni of the Hindus” 3.3 Shangdi: “Jupiter” and “Bel of Ancient Babylon” 4 The Rise of Comparative Mythology and Religion 5 Sequel to the “Term Question” Debate 6 Missionary Critique of McClatchie’s Interpretation 7 Concluding Remarks References 8 Nemoto Michiaki’s Use of the Yijing in Meiji State Ideology 1 Introduction 2 The Making of Nemoto’s Yijing Scholarship 3 Nemoto’s Reading of the Yijing and Meiji Ideology 4 Concluding Analysis References 9 The Yijing in Twentieth-Century China 1 Introduction 2 The Path of China’s Modernization 3 Historicizing the Yijing 4 The Zhouyi Craze 5 Concluding Remarks References Part IIIThe Yijing in Modern Science and Popular Culture in the West 10 Richard Wilhelm’s Book of Changes and the Science of the Mind in the Early Twentieth Century 1 Introduction 2 On the Power of the Mind and Universality 3 The Book of Changes and the Unconscious 4 The Secret of the Golden Flower and the Science of the Mind 5 Concluding Remarks References 11 The Encounter of the “Symbolic Chinese Science of the Yijing” with Western Modern Science in Interwar France 1 Introduction 2 Sheng Cheng and the “Chinese Science” Course at the Institut Des Hautes Etudes Chinoises (IHEC) 2.1 The Specificity of IHEC and of Its Project 2.2 The “Chinese Science” Course at IHEC 3 Liu Zihua: Correlating the Yijing and Modern Science 3.1 The Context: Orientalism and Spiritualism in Interwar France 3.2 How Liu Zihua Discovered a Planet Through Analogical Reasoning 3.3 Henri Maspero’s Critical Assessments and the Reception of Liu Zihua’s Work 3.4 From Sacred Scripture to Science: Cross-Cultural Understanding of the Yijing 4 Conclusion: Further Research in the History of the Yijing in France References 12 The Yijing in Early Postwar Counterculture in the West 1 Introduction: The Rise of the Yijing in the Early Postwar Anglophone World 2 The Yijing and the Counterculture in the Sixties and Seventies 3 Carl G. Jung and the Yijing 4 The Yijing and the Reflection on the Vietnam War 5 The Yijing and the Beat Generation 6 The Meaning of the Yijing for the Postwar Generation 7 Concluding Remarks References