CUHK RELS 5331 Special Topic in Religious Studies I

Winter Term 2013

The Origin and Early Development of the Changes

Edward L. Shaughnessy

Email: e-shaughnessy@uchicago.edu

Course Content

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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).
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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

In addition to class meetings, students will be expected to do all readings, to contribute to

classroom discussion, and to produce one term paper on a related topic of their choice.

Assessment Scheme

50% class participation, 50% term paper

Learning Resources

All required readings and many supplementary readings will be made available on
CUHKs Blackboard site.

Course Schedule

14 Jan Shang Oracle-Bone Divination

David N. Keightley, Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions, in Edward L.

Shaughnessy ed., New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the
Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts (Berkeley, Cal.: Society for the Study of
Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley, 1997), pp. 15-55.

Paul L-M Serruys, The Language of the Shang Oracle Inscriptions, Toung Pao
60 (1974): 12-120.

21 Jan Zhou Oracle-Bone Divination

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Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, Ch. 1.

Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos, Chapter One: The Birth of the Changes, pp. 7-
30.

Edward L. Shaughnessy, Western Zhou Oracle-Bone Inscriptions: Entering the

Research Stage? Early China 11-12 (1985-87): 146-194.

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.

28 Jan Yi Divination as Seen in the Zuo Zhuan

Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos, Chapter Two: From Divinatory Text to

Confucian Classic, pp. 57-88.

Edward L. Shaughnessy, The Composition of the Zhouyi. Ph.D. diss.: Stanford

University, 1983, pp. 50-103.

Kidder Smith, Jr., Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan,

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49:2 (1989): 421-63.

4 Feb The Shi and the Western Zhou Worldview

6 (2011): 71-89.

18 Feb The Structure and Meaning of an Yi Line Statement

Edward L. Shaughnessy, The Origin of an Yijing Line Statement, Early China

20 (1995): 223-240.

Waley, Arthur. The Book of Changes. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities 5 (1933): 12142.

25 Feb The Structure and Meaning of an Yi Hexagram

Edward L. Shaughnessy, 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.
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Richard Alan Kunst, The Original Yijing: A Text, Phonetic Transcription,

Translation, and Indexes, with Sample Glosses. Ph.D. diss.: University of
California: Berkeley, 1985, pp. 1-95.

4 Mar The Composition of the Xici

Willard J. Peterson, Making Connections: Commentary on the Attached

Verbalizations of the Book of Change, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 42.1
(1982): 67-116.

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.

11 Mar The Shanghai Museum Yi

Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, Chs. 2-3.

18 Mar The Wangjiatai Gui Cang

Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, Chs. 4-5.

25 Mar The Fuyang Yi

Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, Chs. 6-7.

8 Apr The Mawangdui Yi

A First Reading of the Mawangdui Yijing Manuscript, Early China 19 (1994):

47-73.

15Apr Student Reports

22 Apr Student Reports

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References:

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Kunst, Richard Alan. The Original Yijing: A Text, Phonetic Transcription,

Translation, and Indexes, with Sample Glosses. Ph.D. diss.: University of
California: Berkeley, 1985.

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.

Edward L. Shaughnessy, I Ching: The Classic of Change; The First English

Translation of the Newly Discovered Second-Century B.C. Mawangdui
Texts. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

Wilhelm, Richard. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Translated from German to

English by Cary F. Baynes. 1950; 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1968.
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Adler, Joseph. Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change (I-hseh chi-
meng). New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2002.

Cook, Richard S. Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of

Changes Hexagram Sequence. Berkeley: Sino-Tibetan Etymological
Dictionary and Thesaurus Project, 2006.

Hacker, Edward, Steve Moor, and Lorraine Patsco, I Ching: An Annotated

Bibliography. New York and London: Routledge, 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.

Nielsen, Bent. A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology: Chinese

Studies of Images and Numbers from Han (202 BCE220 CE) to Song
(9601279 CE). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Nylan, Michael. The Elemental Changes: The Ancient Chinese Companion to the
I Ching. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1994.

Shchutskii, Iulian. Researches on the I Ching. Translated by William MacDonald

and Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.

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.

__________. Lectures on the I Ching. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,

1979.

Wilhelm, Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm. Understanding the I Ching: The

Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1995.

DeWoskin, Kenneth. Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China. New

York: Columbia University Press. 1983.
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Elman, Benjamin A. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Chang-chou School

of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley and Los
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. From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change

in Late Imperial China. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 110. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Field, Stephen L. The Art of Divination in Ancient China. Honolulu: University of

Hawaii Press, 2008.

Henderson, John B. Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of

Confucian and Western Exegesis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1991.

Lippiello, Tiziana. Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three
Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties. Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, 2001.

Loewe, Michael. Divination, Mythology, and Monarchy in Han China.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Ng, Benjamin Wai-ming. The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Ng, On-cho. Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (16421718)

and Qing Learning. Albany: State University of New York Press, 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.

Smith, Richard J. Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional

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Wagner, Rudolf G. The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

. Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bis

Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue). Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2003.
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Adler, Joseph. Divination and Philosophy: Chu Hsis Understanding of the I-

Ching. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984.

Dull, Jack. A Historical Introduction to the Apocryphal (Chan-wei) Texts of the

Han Dynasty. Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, Seattle, 1966.

Fendos, George Jr. Fei Chih's Place in the Development of I-Ching Studies"
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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.

Kunst, Richard Alan. The Original Yijing: A Text, Phonetic Transcription,

Translation, and Indexes, with Sample Glosses. Ph.D. diss.: University of
California: Berkeley, 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.

Smith, Kidder. Cheng Yis (10331107) Commentary on the Yijing. Ph.D.

diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1979.

Schulz, Larry James. Lai Chih-te (15251604) and the Phenomenology of the
Classic of Change (I-Ching). Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1982.

Schmitt, Gerhard. Sprche der Wandlungen auf ihrem geistesgeschichtlichen

Hintergrund. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut
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1970.

Swanson, Gerald William. The Great Treatise: Commentary Tradition to the

Book of Changes (Ph.D. diss.: University of Washington, 1974).
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Lin Qingzhang ed., Jingxue yanjiu lunzhu mulu (1912-1987)

(1912-1987). Taipei: Hanxue yanjiu zhongxin, 1989, pp. 72-209.

Lin Qingzhang ed., Riben yanjiu jingxue lunzhu mulu (1900-1992)

(1900-1992). Taipei: Hanxue yanjiu zhongxin, 1994,
pp. 73-128.

Works by me (or by my alter ego ) on the Yi jing that might be of interest:

The Composition of the Zhouyi. Ph.D. diss.: Stanford University, 1983.

Zhouyi Qian gua liulong xinjie (An explanation of the six

dragons of Qian hexagram of the Zhouyi), Wenshi 24 (1986): 9-14.

Zhouyi shifa yuan wu zhigua kao (That the Zhouyi

divination method originally did not have moving hexagrams), Zhouyi
yanjiu 1 (1988): 15-19.

Shuo Qian zhuan zhi, Kun xi pi xiang yi , (On Qians

being curled and straight, Kuns being closed and open), Wenshi 30
(July, 1988): 24.

Shishi Zhouyuan buci si zi - jianlun Zhoudai zhenbu zhi xingzhi

-- (A preliminary interpretation of the
Zhouyuan oracle-bone graph si: with a discussion of the nature of Zhou
period divination), Guwenzi yanjiu 17 (1989): 304-308.

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, in Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographic Guide, ed. Michael Loewe

(Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1993), pp. 216-228.

A First Reading of the Mawangdui Yijing Manuscript, Early China 19 (1994):

47-73.
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The Origin of an Yijing Line Statement, Early China 20 (1995): 223-240.

Commentary, Philosophy, and Translation: Reading Wang Bis Commentary to

the Yi jing in a New Way, Early China 22 (1997): 221-245.

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.

Xici zhuan de bianzuan (The Redaction of the Commentary on

the Appended Statements), in Wenhua de yizeng: Hanxue yanjiu guoji
huiyi lunwenji; Zhexue juan
(Offerings of Culture: Essays from the International Conference
on Chinese Studies; Philosophy Issue), ed. Beijing daxue Zhongguo
chuantong wenhua yanjiu zhongxin (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe,
2000), pp. 262-7; republished, without authorization, as Boshu Xici
zhuan de bianzuan (The Redaction of the Silk
Manuscript Commentary on the Appended Statements), Daojia wenhua
yanjiu (Researches on Daoist Culture) 18 (2000): 371-81.

The Wangjiatai Gui Cang: An Alternative to Yi jing Divination, in Facets of

Tibetan Religious Tradition and Contacts with Neighbouring Cultural
Areas, ed. A. Cadonna and E. Bianchi, Orientalia Venetiana 12 (Firenze,
2002): pp. 95-126.

The Fuyang Zhou Yi and the Making of a Divination Manual, Asia Major, 3rd
ser. 14.1 (2001 [actually 2003]): 7-18.

Shilun Shangbo Zhou Yi de gua xu (A trial

discussion of the hexagram sequence in the Shanghai Museum Zhou
Changes), Jianbo (Bamboo and silk) 1 (2006): 97-105.

A First Reading of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi Manuscript, Early China 30

(2005): 1-24.

Changing Semiotics and Hermeneutics: A Review of Zheng Jixiong , Yi

tuxiang yu Yi quanshi , China Reviews International, in
press.

Arousing Images: The Poetry of Divination and the Divination of Poetry, in

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World, ed. Amar
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Annus. Oriental Institute Seminars 6 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute of

the University of Chicago, 2010), pp. 61-75.

Cong chutu wenzi ziliao kan Zhou Yi de bianzuan

(Looking at the composition of the Zhou Changes on the
basis of excavated written materials), in 2009 Zhou Yi jing zhuan wenxian
xin quan (2009 New hermeneutics on the Zhou
Changes classic and commentary texts), ed. Zheng Jixiong (Taipei:
Taiwan daxue chuban zhongxin, 2010), 34-49.

Jianlun Yuedu xiguan: Yi Shangbo Zhou Yi Jing gua wei li

(A brief discussion of Reading
Practices: Taking Jing hexagram of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi as an
example), Jianbo (Bamboo and silk) 4 (2009): 385-94.

Zai shuo Xici Qian zhuan zhi, Kun xi pi (Once

again on the Appended Statements Qians being curled and straight,
Kuns being closed and open), Wenshi 91 (2010.2): 273-75.

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.

Zai lun Zhouyuan bu ci si zi yu Zhou dai bu shi xingzhi zhu wenti

(A second discussion of the Zhouyuan
oracle-bone character si as well as such questions as the nature of Zhou
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dynasty turtle-shell and milfoil divination), in ? (Taipei: Taiwan

University Press, 2011), in press.

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.