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Chinese Poetry And Prophecy

Name: Chinese Poetry And Prophecy
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ISBN: 9780804743341

by Strickmann, Michel; Faure, Bernard

ISBN13: 9780804743341
ISBN10: 0804743347
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2005-04-13
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

Focusing on oracular texts,Chinese Poetry and Prophecyexamines the role of divination in Chinese culture, particularly in religious practice. Drawing on a dazzling array of ancient and modern sources, the author establishes the oracular sequence of important but obscure works in his celebrated engaging style. This is the second posthumous work of Michel Strickmann to be to be edited by Bernard Faure for publication by Stanford University Press.

Author Biography

The late Michel Strickmann was Professor of Chinese Religions at the University of California, Berkeley, and a world-renowned expert on Taoism and on Asian popular religion. Stanford University Press has also published his Chinese Magical Medicine (2002).

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Foreword

Introduction

Ritual and Randomization

(6)

Chinese Oracles In Partibus

(23)

Termina Technica

(4)

Modern Studies, Editions, and Translations

(13)

New Evidence: A Clutch of Taoist Oracles

(10)

New Evidence: The Oldest Buddhist Sequence

(19)

La Trahison Des Cleromanes: Divination in a Buddhist Setting

(11)

Writing and Chinese Ritual

(11)

Visions of Diffusion: Central Asia and the West

(47)

Notes

145

(40)

Bibliography

185

(24)

Index

209

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