Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World by Richard J Smith

Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World by Richard J Smith

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Offers the first full-length study in any Western language of the development of the Yijing in China from earliest times to the present. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in both Asian and Western languages, Richard J. Smith offers a fresh perspective on virtually every aspect of Yijing theory and practice for some three thousand years.

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Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World by Richard J Smith

Offers the first full-length study in any Western language of the development of the Yijing in China from earliest times to the present. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in both Asian and Western languages, Richard J. Smith offers a fresh perspective on virtually every aspect of Yijing theory and practice for some three thousand years.
Richard J. Smith is George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is author, coauthor, or coeditor of a dozen scholarly books, including China’s Cultural Heritage: The Qing Dynasty, 1644–1912 and Cosmology, Ontology, and Human Efficacy: Essays in Chinese Thought.
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ISBN 13 9780813940465
ISBN 10 081394046X
Title Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World
Author Richard J Smith
Series Richard Lectures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Year published 2018-01-30
Number of pages 416
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