The Emergence of Technical Communication in China - Yi Jing (I Ching): The Budding of a Tradition

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-345

  Ding, Daniel D ^a  

^a FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Culture; Highly contextual; I Ching; Instructions; Manuals; Technical communication; Yi Jing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037998466     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651903017003003     Document Type: Review

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