Ebook: The Classic of Changes: a New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi

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.;Intro; Table of Contents ; 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.