Unearthing the Changes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unearthing the Changes write by Edward L. Shaughnessy. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Unearthing the Changes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest—the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi—dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text's original circulation. The Guicang, or Returning to Be Stored, reflects another ancient Chinese divination tradition based on hexagrams similar to those of the Yi jing. In 1993, two manuscripts were found in a third-century B.C.E. tomb at Wangjiatai that contain almost exact parallels to the Guicang's early quotations, supplying new information on the performance of early Chinese divination. Finally, the Fuyang Zhou Yi was excavated from the tomb of Xia Hou Zao, lord of Ruyin, who died in 165 B.C.E. Each line of this classic is followed by one or more generic prognostications similar to phrases found in the Yi jing, indicating exciting new ways the text was produced and used in the interpretation of divinations. Unearthing the Changes details the discovery and significance of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi, the Wangjiatai Guicang, and the Fuyang Zhou Yi, including full translations of the texts and additional evidence constructing a new narrative of the Yi jing's writing and transmission in the first millennium B.C.E. An introduction situates the role of archaeology in the modern attempt to understand the Classic of Changes. By showing how the text emerged out of a popular tradition of divination, these newly unearthed manuscripts reveal an important religious dimension to its evolution.
Unearthing the Nation
Unearthing the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unearthing the Nation write by Grace Yen Shen. This book was released on 2014-02-13. Unearthing the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists—in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty—faced two ongoing challenges: how to develop objective, internationally recognized scientific authority without effacing native identity, and how to serve China when China was still searching for a stable national form. Shen argues that Chinese geologists overcame these obstacles by experimenting with different ways to associate the subjects of their scientific study, the land and its features, with the object of their political and cultural loyalties. This, in turn, led them to link national survival with the establishment of scientific authority in Chinese society. The first major history of modern Chinese geology, Unearthing the Nation introduces the key figures in the rise of the field, as well as several key organizations, such as the Geological Society of China, and explains how they helped bring Chinese geology onto the world stage.
Unearthing Justice
Unearthing Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unearthing Justice write by Joan Kuyek. This book was released on 2019-09-12. Unearthing Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to the economy, shapes government policy and regulation, and deals ruthlessly with its opponents. Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back. Whether it is to stop a mine before it starts, to get an abandoned mine cleaned up, to change Laws and policy, or to mount a campaign to influence investors, Unearthing Justice is an essential handbook for anyone trying to protect the places and people they love.
Unearthing Atlantis:
Unearthing Atlantis: - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unearthing Atlantis: write by Charles R. Pellegrino. This book was released on 2001-07-03. Unearthing Atlantis: available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrated history of Thera Islands of Greece, the Minoan civilization and the fabled land of Atlantis.
All Creation Waits
All Creation Waits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Creation Waits write by Gayle Boss. This book was released on 2016-10-01. All Creation Waits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world.
