Tong, Lik Kuen.  “The Concept of Time in Whitehead and the I Ching.”  J Chin Phil 1 (Jan.-Sep. 1974): 373-393.

Abstract

This essay begins with the observation that while the field concept of being was relatively a late-comer in western science and philosophy, it had been the dominant characteristic of Chinese thought from the very beginning.  As the primal source of Chinese metaphysics, the I Ching contains a philosophy of interdependence which is in many ways remarkably close to Whitehead's organismic philosophy.  In both, being is a dynamic field of creative activity, while the structure of reality is to be grasped in the eventology of process.  Using time as the focal point, this study presents a fundamental comparison and contrast between Whitehead and the I Ching, in both of which the relativity of time can be properly understood and appreciated only in the light of the field concept and against the entitative bias in traditional western philosophy.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]