| Chapter 1: | The Transnational Travels of the Yijing 易經 or Classic of Changes |
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Notes
1. I am using the term “transnationalism” to refer to the historical processes by which people, texts, ideas, technologies, and cultural practices circulated within and especially moved beyond, local, regional, and national boundaries even when these processes occurred well before the rise of modern nation-states.
2. See Wu Weiming 吳偉明, Dong Ya Yixue shilun: Zhouyi Ri, Han, Yue, Liu di chuanbo yu yingxiang 東亞易學史論: 周易日韓越琉的傳播與影響 (The spread and influence of Changes scholarship in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Liuqiu [Ryūkyū]) (Taibei: Taida chuban zhongxin, 2017), 169–183. For a comparative study that takes the Ryūkyū Islands into account, see Richard J. Smith, “The Transnational Travels of Geomancy in Premodern East Asia,” Transnational Asia (2019), https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/journal/Volume-2/Issue-1/Number-5 and https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/journal/Volume-2/Issue-1/Number-6.
3. For a few useful Asian-language works on the spread and circulation of literary Sinitic texts in East Asia, see Wu’s Dong Ya Yixue shilun; Abe Yoshio’s 阿部吉雄, Nihon Shushigaku to Chōsen 日本朱子学と朝鮮 (Japanese Zhu Xi scholarship and Korea) (Tōkyō: Daigaku Shuppankai, 1965); Cai Yi’s 蔡毅, Zhongguo chuantong wenhua zai Riben 中國傳統文化在日本 (China’s traditional culture in Japan) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2002); and Yang Hongsheng’s 楊宏聲, Bentu yu yuwai: Yixue di xiandaihua yu shijiehua 本土與域外: 易學的現代化與世界化 (The native land and beyond: The modernization and globalization of Changes studies) (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan, 1995). In English, see, for example, Abe Yoshio, “Development of Neo-Confucianism in Japan, Korea, and China,” Acta Asiatica 19 (1970): 16–39; Eiji Takemura, Takayuki Ito, and Hiroyuki Eto, “Textual Criticism and Exegesis in East Asia and the West: A Comparative Study” (March 25, 2016): 111–126, http://id.nii.ac.jp/1410/00010766/; Confucius Institute, Rutgers University, ed., East Asian Confucianism: Interactions and Innovations (New Brunswick, NJ: Confucius Institute, 2010); and Chun-chieh Huang, East Asian Confucianisms: Texts in Context (Taibei: National Taiwan University Press, 2015).
4. For details on the Sinospheric book trade, as well as other transnational channels of communication, see both parts of Smith, “The Transnational Travels of Geomancy.”