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    Review: The Yijing: A Guide by Joseph Adler

    The Yijing: A Guide, by Joseph Adler (Oxford University Press, 2021, paperback) is a wonderful resource on the Yijing (I Ching) for all levels, covering history, philosophy, comparative divination, and more. This is one of the most clearly written works on theYijing for newcomers, aimed more or...
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    Review: Tuck Chang's Unveiling the Mystery of the I Ching

    Tuck Chang’s massive Unveiling the Mystery of the I Ching is an immense labor of love. At close to 800 pages, his book is packed with insights of someone immersed in classical texts, use of the Yijing, and firmly grounded in Chinese culture. In particular, he details the dynamics of lines and...
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    Book Review: Richard Smith's Several Books on I Ching

    Richard Smith is a professor of imperial Chinese history, and has written a number of excellent books on the I Ching and Chinese divination, including The I Ching: A Biography, Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China...
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    Book Review: Cheng Yi's [I]The Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes[/I]

    An interesting new translation is out of Cheng Yi's The Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes, edited and translated by L. Michael Harrington, with Introduction by L. Michael Harrington and Robin R. Wang from Yale University Press, 2019. Cheng Yi (1033–1107) lived during the Song dynasty...
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    Book Review: Yijing, Shamanic Oracle of China

    Yijing, Shamanic Oracle of China: A New Book of Change by Richard Bertschinger, translation and commentary (Singing Dragon 2012) This is a nicely put together book accessible for beginners and up, with an emphasis on finding one's way in life. You can read my review here.
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    Book Review: Bent Nielsen's A Companion to Yi Jing Reissued

    Bent Nielsen's A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology: Chinese Studies of Images and Numbers from the Han (202 BCE–220 CE) to Song (960–1279 CE) has just been reissued in an affordable paperback or ebook edition. I've reviewed it here. It is a must-have for anyone interested in Yijing...
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    Book Review: Iulian Shchutskii's Researches on the I Ching

    Researches on the I Ching, by Iulian Shchutskii, is one of my favorite books about the I Ching. It has just been reissued by Princeton University Press as a print-on-demand book. His work, from the pre-WWII period, influenced all later research about the I Ching. Highly readable, highly...
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    Book Review: Book of Changes by Lars Bo Christensen

    Lars Bo Christensen has written Book of Changes: The Original Core of the I Ching, a book that will be of interest for those wanting to do close reading of the Zhouyi. A complete review is here; Hilary's prior review on this forum and discussion can be found here.
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    Book Review: John Minford's I Ching

    John Minford's I Ching is a deep exploration of the Book of Changes arranged in one large volume as two translations with commentaries, either of which can be used for consultation. Part One draws from the commentary tradition; Part Two from the original Bronze Age text. This version is deep...
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    Book Review: C.G. Garant's Designer's Book of Change

    The Designer's Book of Change by C.G. Garant is an interesting interpretation of the Yijing through the eyes of a teacher of design. It looks at the universal principles of good design and nicely draws wisdom from the Yijing to support those principles. The author has created a work of interest...
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    Book Review: Scott Davis Classic of Changes in Cultural Context

    Here's a link to a review of Scott Davis' book, The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context. The book is full of challenging ideas about the structure of the Zhouyi, and proposes an underlying matrix for the hexagrams (both text and graphic).
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    Book Review: Margaret Pearson's The Original I Ching

    Margaret Pearson's The Original I Ching is a very engaging book with clear enough writing and ideas for beginners, but with some challenging new ideas and translations and commentary for experienced readers (particularly regarding women's roles in early China, and later gendering of yin and...

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