Let me paraphrase the link shared by Dao above:
The “Open Policy” by the People’s Republic of China in 1978 vastly expanded traditional Chinese beliefs and practices. And later on in the late 1980s and early 1990s, bursts of “fortune-telling fever” (算命热 suanming re) and “Yijing fever” (易经热 Yijing re) generated a vast popular literature on destiny analysis and divination. This trend also encouraged a significant stream of scholarly studies on the subject.
We see that the arts of destiny and divination are also studied academically. The above trend has continued until today.
