The <i>Classic of Changes</i> in Cultural Context:   A Textual Archaeology of the <i>Yi jing</i>
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List of Figures

Figure 1. Oracle bone script of “pray,” “older brother.”

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Figure 2. Dui trigram.

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Figure 3. Guai hexagram.

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Figure 4. Feature analysis of the “wine” system.

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Figure 5. Transforming lines in the “wine” system.

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Figure 6. The King Wen Sequence of the Zhou yi.

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Figure 7. The “Three talents” domains in a hexagram.

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Figure 8. Transformational boundaries for dragon references in the first two hexagrams.

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Figure 9. Topologies of hexagrams as loops.

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Figure 10. Minimal and maximal integration in the outline of the King Wen sequence.

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Figure 11. Symmetrical hexagrams pair through inversion transformations.

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Figure 12. Eight hexagrams pair indifferently through inversion or rotation transformations.

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