Prognostics

Together with Constance A. Cook, Andrea Bréard published  a chapter entitled "Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts". It focuses on the earliest graphic inscriptions of groups of numbers found on a variety of media over the course of a mi...

A new publication by A. Bréard with the title "Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing" appeared in Tze-ki Hon's edited volume The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life (Brill 2021). It analyzes the motivation...

During the summer term 2021 the IKGF organizes an online lecture series on the Consortium's theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am...