{"product_id":"reading-the-i-ching-book-of-changes-themes-imagery-expressions-and-rhetoric-paperback","title":"Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes): Themes, Imagery, Expressions, and Rhetoric - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Redmond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 3,000 year old \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e is the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic. \u003ci\u003eReading the I Ching (Book of Changes)\u003c\/i\u003eincorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how the \u003ci\u003eZhouyi\u003c\/i\u003e(the ancient textual layer of the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted compendium of divination responses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this book Geoffrey Redmond clarifies the meanings of the ancient text by examining use of literary devices such as prognostic terms, imagery from daily life, rhetorical tropes, metaphors, proverbs and set phrases. This provides insight on how the \u003ci\u003eZhouyi\u003c\/i\u003ewas composed and explains its use for divination. It also shows how, centuries later, the \u003ci\u003eZhouyi\u003c\/i\u003ewas adapted by the Confucians, who believed it to be the creation of ancient sages, and the source of their metaphysics and cosmology. Redmond also analyzes the Changes through a variety of philological heuristics, such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, methods of analogy and anomaly, the distinction between argumentative and context dependence, as well as modern approaches such as Jungian psychology, and critical theory. Included are the interlinear Chinese text, and a glossary of key words in English, Chinese, and pinyin, making it essential reading for students studying Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, and early Chinese history, as well as readers looking for a clear and accessible gloss of this text.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Redmond\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe I Ching (Book of Changes): A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390094893135,"sku":"9781350443532","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/zW18PJcc7X9781350443532.webp?v=1780242745","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/reading-the-i-ching-book-of-changes-themes-imagery-expressions-and-rhetoric-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}