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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-16 - Publisher: Chinese Bound
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese work of divination that examines the patterns, or hexagrams, traditionally formed by dropping bundles of dried grass stalks. T
Language: en
Pages: 499
Pages: 499
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-01 - Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
PBaffled by Chinese astrology? Confused by Feng Shui? Author Sasha Fenton delves into 11 major divination systems based on ancient Chinese practices, providing
Language: en
Pages: 578
Pages: 578
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-01 - Publisher: Basic Books
The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a prima