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In the introduction to Penguin Classics' translation of the Shang Shu, Martin Palmer makes the case the I Ching/Yi Jing originated as an epic account of the Zhou dynasty's overthrow of the Shang. Is this the conventional approach to it's origins, or is Palmer's claim unorthodox in Sinology?

by /u/mangafan96 in /r/AskHistorians

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