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Cover illustration: Yu Zhiding (Chinese, born 1647). Portrait of Zhou Lianggong, late 17th century. Album leaves of painting and calligraphy mounted as hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 71 × 19 13/16 in. (180.3 × 50.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the C.C. Wang Family Collection, 1997.185.7 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1997.185.7_detail1_PS2.jpg)
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Names: Schmiedl, Anne, author.
Title: Chinese character manipulation in literature and divination : the Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672) / Anne Schmiedl.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020003252 (print) | LCCN 2020003253 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004422360 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004422377 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Fortune-telling by Chinese characters. | Zhou, Lianggong, 1612-1672. Zichu.
Classification: LCC BF1891.C48 S36 2020 (print) | LCC BF1891.C48 (ebook) | DDC 133.3/33–dc23
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