Book Review: Scott Davis Classic of Changes in Cultural Context

[tacrab]

Here's a link to a review of Scott Davis' book, The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context. The book is full of challenging ideas about the structure of the Zhouyi, and proposes an underlying matrix for the hexagrams (both text and graphic).

 

[hilary]

Oh, bravo, well done for reviewing this one. I have been thinking I should, but I find the prospect a bit daunting . (I did run through his ideas about Big/Little Hexagrams in some detail in my Sequence article, though, and point out patterns he'd apparently missed.)

 

[tacrab]

Thanks for providing that link, as I had not been able to recollect where that was.
I should also point out that though the book is very highly priced, there are reasonable rates for a number of different ebook access plans, if one is into those.
Barbara

 

[charly]

Here's a link to a review of Scott Davis' book, The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context. The book is full of challenging ideas about the structure of the Zhouyi, and proposes an underlying matrix for the hexagrams (both text and graphic).

Hi, Barbara:

Is it the editorial review? Can you post some of your own impressions on the book?
[I APOLOGIZE. IT WAS MY MISTAKE, THE REVIEW WAS DONE BY BARBARA, NOT WITH ANY EDITORIAL PURPOSE. Charly]

In Cambria press there is a limited free preview, I believe that also in Google Books.

http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=6&bid=507

An article by Scott Davis in .doc formate:

http://211.86.56.178:8080/english0/newsxitong/selectedPapers/DOC/ScottDavis8.doc


All the best,


Charly

 

[charly]

The quoted Cambria's previer has a feature that allows searching though the whole book.

Searching LOVE:

The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context
Results for "love"

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The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context, ISBN 9781604978087, Page xxi
I deeply thank Professor Huang Qingxuan for his kind generosity in tutoring an untrained, brash young foreign student. I will never forget wonderful, edifying times spent with the lovely, learned scholars at Wenzhesuo; in particular, thanks to Liu Yuanru for making me start writing this in English. To my dear friend Lothar von Falkenhausen, great thanks for all your unforgettable support and patient tolerance of my stupidity; in good and bad times, just the privilege of knowing you has made the journey worthwhile. I thank Dr. Otsubo Hisayasu of Miyazaki International College for research support and for office facilities leading to the production of this book. Finishing touches on the manuscript were completed thanks to a fellowship of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities: “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication: Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” (supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. A shout-out goes to the good Westerville people—Rich, Joe, Linda, Janet, Jim, Dan, and Les; I totally appreciate the friendship and support. Greetings to the many

The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context, ISBN 9781604978087, Page 152
When the Chinese philosophers wished to build up a theory of love they explained that in springtime the girls were attracted by the boys, and in autumn the boys by the girls. [. . .] Spring was the season of betrothals. [. . .] Autumn was the time for setting up house: the wife must come, without delay, to live at her husband’s home. In autumn the husbandmen were rich in grain, garnered for the winter: but the women, in spring, had abundance of still more precious riches, stuffs newly woven. (161)

Ch.

 

[tacrab]

Charly---Sorry for the confusion. This is my review, not the publisher's pitch.

 

[charly]

Charly---Sorry for the confusion. This is my review, not the publisher's pitch.

Hi, Barbara:

Dont worry. It was only my mistake. Of course, to apologize is not enough but I do't know how to offer reparation.

All the best,


Charly