What does TCB reveal about the I Ching?
So what emerges from this process of stripping away everything but the original Zhouyi, and correlating it to the Zhou Conquest narrative?
Well, it's an exciting book!
It's a book about the overthrow of a rotten central government by a virtuous provincial people!
It's a book with killing! Beheadings! Visionary quests!
Kings and ministers cutting deals that shape the future of dozens of kingdoms!
It is a book with a villain who gets unseated from his throne, and a people who are rescued from the misery that he has brought down on their heads!
It is a book with characters! Amazing characters, that we get to see through the dark glass of a text from the dawn of literacy, a bronze age society like ancient Greece or Egypt.
It is a ripping yarn!
It has a plot!
(With the wrinkle that it is all scrambled up. Is there a grand pattern to the way the chronology is rearranged? I don't know! I hope TCB is a step toward someone finding out.)
All this, and it's also a working oracle.
My new friends who are working diviners have said that it works, and it reads. And the narrative material about the Zhou Conquest enables a new way of reading. (Or clarifies a very old one.)
What emerges is a book about war; but it is not a bellicose book. The importance of treaty, alliance and correct treatment of defeated peoples are immense in the I Ching. And war as a figure can be applied to the individual life and career in clear ways. Also, it is not a timid book, which I have sometimes (perhaps wrongly) felt of traditional I Chings.
I would like to read more Asian writers about warfare, pre-modern warfare.
I've read a fair amount of Samurai literature. And of course I've read Sun Tzu's Art of War. Some of the sensibility strikes me as very comparable.
It would be interesting to correlate some of the notions that emerge in my naive readings with other writers on pre-modern warfare in Asia.
I wait with bated breath for a reader who is a strong student of bronze-age warfare in Asia. I will find their thoughts deeply interesting.
Well, it's an exciting book!
It's a book about the overthrow of a rotten central government by a virtuous provincial people!
It's a book with killing! Beheadings! Visionary quests!
Kings and ministers cutting deals that shape the future of dozens of kingdoms!
It is a book with a villain who gets unseated from his throne, and a people who are rescued from the misery that he has brought down on their heads!
It is a book with characters! Amazing characters, that we get to see through the dark glass of a text from the dawn of literacy, a bronze age society like ancient Greece or Egypt.
It is a ripping yarn!
It has a plot!
(With the wrinkle that it is all scrambled up. Is there a grand pattern to the way the chronology is rearranged? I don't know! I hope TCB is a step toward someone finding out.)
All this, and it's also a working oracle.
My new friends who are working diviners have said that it works, and it reads. And the narrative material about the Zhou Conquest enables a new way of reading. (Or clarifies a very old one.)
What emerges is a book about war; but it is not a bellicose book. The importance of treaty, alliance and correct treatment of defeated peoples are immense in the I Ching. And war as a figure can be applied to the individual life and career in clear ways. Also, it is not a timid book, which I have sometimes (perhaps wrongly) felt of traditional I Chings.
I would like to read more Asian writers about warfare, pre-modern warfare.
I've read a fair amount of Samurai literature. And of course I've read Sun Tzu's Art of War. Some of the sensibility strikes me as very comparable.
It would be interesting to correlate some of the notions that emerge in my naive readings with other writers on pre-modern warfare in Asia.
I wait with bated breath for a reader who is a strong student of bronze-age warfare in Asia. I will find their thoughts deeply interesting.
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