Here’s the hardback for £10 (opening bid) plus p+p. At £8.75 cheaper than Amazon UK at this opening price, and the author will even sign it for you. (Another hardback and two paperback copies to come later: he’s selling them one at a time.)
Someone asked me in an email about what special qualities you need to read the Yijing, and about how intuitive I am. Eeek. 😯 When I first started out with Yi, I would have had a short and simple answer to that second question: not in the least intuitive. The… Read more »What gifts do you need to read the Yijing?
Two quick news bulletins:
First, I’ve finally got the recording and transcript online. It’s only £4 for the downloadable version or £9 to get the CD posted to you – that’s in the region of $16 US. You can get your copy here. I’ve also put some free excerpts… Read more »Margaret Pearson webinar update
The biggest story arc of the Yijing is the Conquest story: how the Zhou people inherited the mandate of heaven and overthrew the Shang dynasty. It’s a great narrative of Change: the decay of the Shang; the preparations of the good Zhou ruler Wen, making his people worthy of the… Read more »Fathers and sons II: carting corpses
Look at this! http://www.appositive.net/oysterbay/ichingtitle.html I’ve barely started reading, but I feel like a child in a sweetshop already. Very, very good work on the Sequence, on trigrams, and individual hexagrams. Saving the whole lot to my computer now.
Horses in ancient China http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~baojie/history/chinese/2002-12-02_horse.en.htm A nice, long article on the role of horses, basically in the military, from pre-Shang to post-Zhou times. Why would we be interested? It casts new light on why horses are so important in the Yi: why Prince Kang would be especially honoured by a… Read more »Horses in ancient China
I dropped into Oxford today on the way home from a friend’s, and found my way into Blackwell’s – the university bookshop. And down to the Chinese history section, where I came across an intimidating-looking tome called To become a god: cosmology, sacrifice and self-divinisation in Early China. And… Read more »Yi’s recommended reading
