TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmiedl,Anne
TI  - Chinese character manipulation in literature and divination: the Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672) 
T2  - Prognostication in History
SN  - 9789004422377
AV  - BF1891.C48 S36 2020
U1  - 133.3/33 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Zhou, Lianggong,
KW  - Fortune-telling by Chinese characters
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Script and Divination Intertwined -- 1. The Manipulation of Chinese Characters Cezi -- 2. Surrounding and Extending the Zichu: The Paratexts -- 3. Different Approaches to Cezi: The Six Chapters of the Zichu -- Epilogue: Character Manipulation, Then and Now -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "In Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination, Anne Schmiedl analyses the little-studied method of Chinese character manipulation as found in imperial sources. Focusing on one of the most famous and important works on this subject, the Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672), Schmiedl traces and discusses the historical development and linguistic properties of this method. This book represents the first thorough study of the Zichu and the reader is invited to explore how, on the one hand, the educated elite leveraged character manipulation as a literary play form. On the other hand, as detailed exhaustively by Schmiedl, practitioners of divination also used and altered the visual, phonetic, and semantic structure of Chinese characters to gain insights into events and objects in the material world"
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004422377
ER  -