Coping with the Future

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Michael Lackner

Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant
1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination
 Marco Caboara
2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du
 Bent Nielsen
3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China
 Paul W. Kroll
4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China
 Vincent Durand-Dastès

Part 2: Divination and Religions
5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon
 Esther-Maria Guggenmos
6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources
 Dominic Steavu*
7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau
 Anne C. Klein

Part 3: Divination and Politics
8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric
 Martin Kern
9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea
 Park Kwon Soo

Part 4: Divination and Individual
10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge
 Liao Hsien-huei
11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination
 Kim Yung Sik
12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China
 Stéphanie Homola
13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea
 Jennifer Jung-Kim

Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West
14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture
 Che-chia Chang
15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts
 Chu Pingyi
16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China
 Li Fan and Michael Lackner
17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea
 Jun Yong Hoon

Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts
18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China
 Andrea Bréard
19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques
 Matthias Hayek
20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea
 Oh Sanghak

Index