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Coping with the Future
Theories and Practices of Divination
in East Asia
Edited by
Michael Lackner
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ContentCsontents v
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures and Tables x
Notes on Contributors xii
Introduction 1
Michael Lackner
Part 1
Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant
1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on
Divination 23
Marco Caboara
2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-
Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du 47
Bent Nielsen
3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval
China 99
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 126
Vincent Durand-Dastès
Part 2
Divination and Religions
5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon 151
Esther-Maria Guggenmos
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Acknowledgments ix
Michael Lackner
List of Figures and Tables x
Notes on Contributors xii vi Contents
Introduction 1
Michael Lackner
Part 1
Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant 6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and
Chapter 1
A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination* 23 Buddhist Sources 196
Marco Caboara
Chapter 2 Dominic Steavu
Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du 47
Bent Nielsen
Chapter 3
7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan
The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China 99
Paul W. Kroll Plateau 233
Chapter 4
Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, Anne C. Klein
a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China 126
Vincent Durand-Dastès
Part 2
Divination and Religions
Chapter 5
A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon* 151 Part 3
Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Chapter 6 Divination and Politics
The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources 196
Dominic Steavu*
Chapter 7
Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau 233 8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric 255
Anne C. Klein
Part 3 Martin Kern
Divination and Politics
Chapter 8
Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric 255
Martin Kern 9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in
Chapter 9
Eighteenth-century Korea 289
Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea 289
Kwon Soo Park
Kwon Soo Park
Part 4
Divination and Individual
Chapter 10
Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge 299
Hsien-huei Liao
Chapter 11 Part 4
Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination* 345
Yung Sik Kim Divination and Individual
Chapter 12
From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China 366
Stéphanie Homola
Chapter 13 10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate
Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea 392
Jennifer Jung-Kim and Mantic Knowledge 299
Part 5
Mantic Arts: When East Meets West Hsien-huei Liao
Chapter 14
Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture 409
Che-Chia Chang
Chapter 15 11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination 345
Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts 433
Pingyi Chu Yung Sik Kim
Chapter 16 Li and Lackner
Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China 451
Fan Li and Michael Lackner
12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity
Chapter 17
Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea 486 of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China 366
Yong Hoon Jun
Part 6 Stéphanie Homola
Reflections on Mantic Arts
Chapter 18
How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China 499
Andrea Bréard 13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea 392
Chapter 19
Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques 530 Jennifer Jung-Kim
Matthias Hayek
Chapter 20
The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea 559
Sanghak Oh
Index 577
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Part 5
Mantic Arts: When East Meets West
14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between
Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture 409
Che-Chia Chang
15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese
Mantic Arts 433
Pingyi Chu
16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western
Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China 451
Fan Li and Michael Lackner
17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea 486
Yong Hoon Jun
Part 6
Reflections on Mantic Arts
18 How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and
Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China 499
Andrea Bréard
19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables
in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques 530
Matthias Hayek
20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea 559
Sanghak Oh
Index 577
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AcknowAlcekdgnmowenltesdgments ix
Acknowledgments
The present volume was originally conceived as the proceedings of a confer-
ence held in 2011 at the International Center for Research in the Humanities
“Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication” in Erlangen. However, since conference
volumes are often subject to contingencies, it seemed preferable to include
more contributions in order to better represent the broad scope of our research.
As a consequence, this volume reaps a plentiful harvest from the different
formats of presentations that have been delivered at the Center since its estab-
lishment in 2009, up until 2014: workshops, lectures, and reading seminars, as
well as papers specifically solicited for this publication. The collection thus
provides a consistent overview of the Center’s research activities regarding the
history of prognostication in East Asia (this would not have been possible
without the generous funding, which the Center received as one of the Kaete
Hamburger Kollegs, granted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
BMBF).
For a number of contributions, the editor is indebted to Richard Smith, who
in 2012 organized a conference on „Divinatory Traditions in East Asia“ at Rice
University; also in 2012, Yung Sik Kim brought a group of Korean scholars to a
workshop on “Divination and Fengshui in Korea” at the Center.
I owe special thanks to Esther-Maria Guggenmos and Lu Zhao for their help
with improving the structure of the materials presented in this volume – not
an easy task, given the enormous span of time and of topics covered by the
authors. I am grateful to Martin Kroher’s numerous suggestions and his help
with preparing the abstracts.
I also want to thank the colleagues who agreed to evaluate individual arti-
cles as part of our peer review process, and, in particular, the anonymous
reader who was willing to take on the burden of reviewing the entire book. This
volume covers a broad range of historical epochs, languages, and civilizations;
each discipline has its own style conventions: while trying our best to stan-
dardize the contributions, we have not opted for an overarching uniformity.
Jörn Bosserhoff and Anne Schmiedl prepared the ground for copy-editing;
Anne also was responsible for a considerable part of the correspondence
with the authors. Alexander Moldovan accompanied the last important
steps towards the publication by creating the index and resolving various
doubts (which has been the age-old purpose of divination). Finally, Matthias
Schumann and Max Kruse accomplished a feat by adding the finishing touches.
Michael Lackner
Erlangen, December 2016
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