Contemporary Interpretations and Readings of the Yijing: The Changes in Our Times
This book questions whether the ancient, iconic Chinese book of divination, The Classic of Changes (Yijing) might help us navigate the precarious, complex, and seemingly unpredictable intricacies of present contemporary times. The essays contained in this book respond affirmatively to this question in seeking to show how The Classic of Changes can help us think through the particularly human challenge of establishing meaning and making choices between alternatives. The author’s book explores and discusses novel and often surprising ways for contemporary readers to interpret and apply this ancient Chinese classic, touching upon fields such as narration, technology, ecology, psychology, aesthetics, ontology, cognition, semiotics, and gender issues. This book is of appeal to both students and informed readers with an interest in the mysteries of The Classic of Changes, and to researchers in areas of Chinese philosophy, Chinese history, religious studies, and East Asian approaches to health and well-being.
About the Author
Dr. Tzeki Hon currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). After obtaining his bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong, he pursued further studies in the United States, earning a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Over the past twenty-plus years, he has taught at Hanover College in Indiana (1992-1996), SUNY Geneseo (1996-2016), and City University of Hong Kong (2017-2021). Professor Hon specializes in the study of the Yijing (I Ching), Chinese cultural history, modern intellectual history, and the transmission of Chinese classics to the West. He has published three books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005), Revolution as Restoration (2013), The Allure of the Nation (2015); and co-authored Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (2014) with Geoffrey Redmond, which instructs Westerners on how to read the I Ching. He has also edited six volumes of collected papers, including Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017), Cold War Cities (2021), and The Other Yijing (2022). His papers appear in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Modern China, Monumenta Serica, and the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.
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