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The Classic of Changes
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Acknowledgments Introduction General Remarks on the Changes of the Zhou, by Wang Bi Commentary on the Appended Phrases, Part One Commentary on the Appended Phrases, Part Two Providing the Sequences of the Hexagrams The Hexagrams in Irregular Order Explaining the Trigrams The Sixty-Four Hexagrams, with Texts and Commentaries Bibliography Glossary List of Proper Nouns Index

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The first translation ever to appear in English that includes one of the major Chinese philosophical commentaries, the Columbia I Ching presents the classic book of changes for the world today. Richard Lynn's introduction to this new translation explains the organization of The Classic of Changes through the history of its various parts, and describes how the text was and still is used as a manual of divination with both the stalk and coin methods.

About the Author

Richard John Lynn has a Ph.D. in Chinese from Stanford University. Acclaimed as one of the outstanding translators of our time, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Auckland University; and the University of British Columbia. He is currently professor of Chinese thought and literature at the University of Toronto. Lynn has also served as a Humanities Administrator in the Division of Research at the NEH, in charge of the Translators Grants Program.

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"This is the best I Ching that has so far appeared." - Times Literary Supplement (London); "The best entry into an I Ching world we have so far." - Shambala Sun; "This, I would suggest, is the single best introduction to the Yijing currently available." - Kidder Smith, Philosophy East & West"

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