Chapter 1: | The Transnational Travels of the Yijing 易經 or Classic of Changes |
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45. See Ng, “The I Ching in Late Chosŏn Thought,” 64.
46. Deberniere Torrey, “Separate but Engaged: Human Subjectivity in the Poetry of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong,” The Journal of Korean Studies 15, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 95–122, esp. 105.
47. For details, see Smith, The I Ching: A Biography, 148–150.
48. Liam C. Kelley, “Vietnam as a ‘Domain of Manifest Civility’ (Văn Hiến Chi Bang),” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34, no. 1 (February 2003): 63–76. See also Liam C. Kelley, “‘Confucianism’ in Vietnam: A State of the Field Essay,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1, nos. 1–2 (February/August 2006): 314–370.
49. For an excellent discussion of other divination techniques in traditional Vietnam, see Alexei Volkov, “Astrology and Hemerology in Traditional Vietnam,” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 35 (2013): 113–140. See also Ng, Dong Ya Yixue shilun, 137–168; and Smith, “The Transnational Travels of Geomancy,” part 2.
50. See also Wu Weiming 吳偉明, “Yixue zai Yuenan di fazhan yu tese” 易學在越南的發展與特色 (The development and special characteristics of Changes studies in Vietnam), Guoji Yixue yanjiu 11 (August 2011): 305–315; also Benjamin Ng, “Yijing Scholarship in Late-Nguyen Vietnam: A Study of Le Van Ngu’s Chu Dich Cuu Nguyen (An Investigation of the Origins of the Yijing, 1916),” Review of Vietnamese Studies 3, no. 1 (December 2003): 1–14, esp. 2–3. This was true, to a lesser extent, in the Ryūkyū islands as well. See Wai-ming Ng, “The Historical Reception of Yijing in Early Modern Ryukyu,” Sino-Japanese Studies 24 (2017): 23–37.
51. For an excellent description of Great One numerology, see Ho Peng Yoke, Chinese Mathematical Astrology (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 42–68.
52. Nguyen is also one of the three “saints” of the Cao Dai religion, together with Victor Hugo and Sun Yat-sen.
53. This work, in 166 pages, was titled Dịch kinh đại toàn tiết yếu 周易大全節要 (The essentials of The Great Comprehensive Compilation of the Zhou Changes). See http://hannom.nlv.gov.vn/hannom/cgi-bin/hannom?a=d&d=BNTwEHieahdlw&e=-------vi-20--1--txt-txIN%7ctxME------. The 1715 edition of the Dịch kinh đại toàn is available online at http://lib.nomfoundation.org/collection/1/volume/201/page/4.
54. Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos, 178–179.
55. See Alexander Woodside’s essay in Rethinking Confucianism, ed. Elman et al., esp. 118–137.