Chinese Poetry and Prophecy The Written Oracle in East Asia

"...this fascinating book provides the reader with a new and vivid description of a number of prototypes of temple oracles in China and beyond."Journal of Chinese Religions "This work will undoubtedly achieve for the Chinese temple oracle the recognition it deserves in histories of divination. More importantly, as Strickmann demonstrates, the study of such divination sequences has a great deal to tell us of the history of the book, the study of morality books, and the history of cultural contact." Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana UniversityStrickmann, Michel is the author of 'Chinese Poetry and Prophecy The Written Oracle in East Asia', published 2005 under ISBN 9780804743341 and ISBN 0804743347.