Introduction to the field of Chinese prognostication
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Introduction to the field of Chinese prognostication
（Handbuch der Orientalistik = Handbook of Oriental studies, Section 4. China / edited by Stephen F. Teiser ... [et al.] ; v. 37 . Handbook of divination and prognostication in China ; pt. 1）
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is the first comprehensive book that presents the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China, from the early period of oracle bones to present-day fortune-tellers. It introduces what is out there in the field of Chinese divination and prognostication, and how we can further explore it especially through different disciplines. Eminent specialists outline the classifications of divination, recently excavated texts, the relationship between practitioners and clients, the place of the "occult" arts in cosmology, literature and religion, and the bureaucratic system.
Contributors are: Constance Cook, Richard J. Smith, Marc Kalinowski, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Lu Lingfeng, Liao Hsien-huei, Philip Clart, Fabrizio Pregadio, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Andrew Schonebaum, and Stephanie Homola.
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