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Marriage, Divorce, and Revolution: Reading between the Lines of the Book of Changes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Edward L. Shaughnessy
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The enigmatic images contained in the Book of Changes (Yijing or Zhouyi) have been interpreted, since shortly after the final redaction of the text, to refer to universal themes, transforming a text that was originally used in divination into a repository of wisdom for the ages. While this tradition continues strong more than twenty-five-hundred years after its first emergence, it has been challenged in the present century by a new historiographical approach that has attempted to return ancient Chinese texts to the immediate historical contexts of their composition and to interpret their language within the strictures of that context.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , August 1992 , pp. 587 - 599
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992

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