Week 9: From Diagram to Text

The Zhouyi's layered composition and its contested dating

19 April 2027

What is actually known about when and how the Zhouyi was written, and the further interpretive layers later readers built on top of it.

Outline#

• the Zhouyi as a layered, composite text (core plus Ten Wings)
• the range of proposed dates, and Shaughnessy’s specific dating argument, attributed by name
• later interpretive traditions built on the text (Han numerology, Wang Bi’s philosophical reading, the Wilhelm/Baynes translation) as receptions, not the source