3 Mission of Civil Bureaucrats

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chronology of Northern Song Emperors xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. The Northern Song Historical Context 15
7. The Northern Song Yijing Text 28
8. Mission of Civil Bureaucrats 49
9. Inner Roots of Ordering the World 77
10. Coming to Terms with Factional Politics 110
11. Conclusion 141
12. Names and Images of the Eight Trigrams 151
13. Names and Images of the Sixty-four Hexagrams 153
14. Notes 157
15. Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names 191
16. Bibliography 197
17. Index 213