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The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng(14 Asian Anthropologies)

The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng(14 Asian Anthropologies)


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From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to learn about their destiny. How do clients assess the diviner’s skills? How does one become a fortune-teller? How is a person’s fate calculated? The Art of Fate Calculation explores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Foreword Michael Lackner Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Clients of Divinatory Services: Societal Issues and Consultation Experiences (Taipei) Chapter 2. Divinatory Arts Specialists: Taipei’s “World of Divination”: Historical Development, Claims, and Reforms Chapter 3. Fate Calculation Techniques: Contemporary Reformulations of a Traditional Knowledge on the Individual and Their Environment Chapter 4. Professional Practitioners in Beijing: Institutional and Cultural Legitimacy of Professional Diviners in Mainland China (Beijing) Chapter 5. Amateur Practitioners and Shared Knowledge: Everyday Knowledge and Modes of Transmission (Kaifeng) Conclusion: Trust and Standardization Appendix I: Brief History of the Ziwei Doushu Method Appendix II: Ziwei Doushu Schools in Taiwan Appendix III: Correspondence Tables in the Ziwei Doushu Method Glossary of Chinese Terms References Index

About the Author :
Stéphanie Homola is Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the French Research Institute for Eastern Asia (IFRAE). She was previously Assistant Professor for Ethnology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Director of the Elite Master's Program "Standards of Decision-Making across Cultures".

Review :
“Divination has been extremely common and important in Chinese culture since earliest times, but surprisingly little information appears in the Western-language literature. This excellent ethnography goes a long way toward remedying the gap… Most ethnographically exciting in this book are Homola's accounts of fortune-casting sessions in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng, especially her warm and empathetic accounts of particular practitioners, ranging from highly successful heads of large corporate operations to wandering seers who depend on small donations. The practice has been condemned as misleading for 2,000 years and as ‘superstition’ (mixin) for at least a century, yet it persists: people demand any lead, however small and tentative. - Highly Recommended.” • Choice “it is a solid monograph on con temporary fortune-telling in Taiwan and China that will serve as a standard reference work in the years to come for anyone wishing to understand on a deeper level what the practice of fortune-telling entails. The book is highly recommended to researchers in the field of divination, while individual chapters provide the interested reader and student with a very reliable overview of practices, techniques, and the political landscape. It also offers a delightful reading experience.” • International Journal of Divination & Prognostication “Taken as a whole, The Art of Fate Calculation is a very comprehensive ethnographic work on the practice of divination in contemporary Chinese societies. Its themes are rich, covering all aspects of divination, including history, legality, techniques, clients, institutions, social relations, and the transmission of knowledge. Moreover, it spans two different social contexts in Taiwan and Mainland China, with scenes ranging from the streets to the classroom, from divinatory texts to oral conversations. For researchers studying contemporary Chinese beliefs and the general practice of divination, this is a very good and timely reference book.” • China Perspectives “Represents an extremely valuable resource, both as a one-stop account of the politics of divination in modern China (the Republic pre-1949, PRC, and Taiwan), its intellectual history, and some key methods, and as a detailed ethnographic account of how diviners and clients engage with divination as a decision-making process and set of cosmological ideas. • William Matthews, London School of Economics “Excellent and very timely survey of the broad field of Chinese divination. And so much more than "a survey"! A comprehensive, detailed review of a complex and fascinating subject.” • David Zeitlyn, University of Oxford


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  • ISBN-13: 9781800738133
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 14 Asian Anthropologies
  • ISBN-10: 1800738137
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2023
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 374
  • Sub Title: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng


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