Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)

Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)

Author: Geoffrey P. Redmond

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0199766819

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Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) is a comprehensive and authoritative source for understanding the 3,000-year-old Book of Changes, arguably the most influential Chinese classical text. It provides up-to-date coverage of key aspects, including bronze age origins, references to women, excavated manuscripts, the canonical commentaries, cosmology, and the Yijing in modern China and the West.


The Yijing: a Guide

The Yijing: a Guide

Author: Joseph A. Adler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190072458

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"This book is a concise introduction to the Scripture of Change, or Yijing (formerly spelled I Ching), for general readers, practitioners of divination, students, and non-specialist scholars. Sometimes called the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, this ancient Chinese text, with roots going back about three thousand years, has traditionally been considered the most profound of the Chinese "classics." Originally a manual of divination, in the late 1st millennium BCE it accumulated appendices, traditionally attributed to Confucius, that transformed it into a uniquely Chinese expression of wisdom. Through the centuries it has inspired countless commentaries, mostly in China but also throughout East Asia. Since the 20th century it has gained global popularity for both its use in divination and its contribution to the world's wisdom literature"--