The Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes
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New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, May2019.576 pages.$85.00.Hardcover.ISBN9780300218077.For other formats: Link to Publisher's Website.
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A translation of a key commentary on perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China.
This book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes,or Yijing (I Ching), perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The Yijing first appeared as a divination text in Zhou-dynasty China (ca. 1045–256 bce) and later became a work of cosmology, philosophy, and political theory as commentators supplied it with new meanings. While many English translations of the Yijing itself exist, none are paired with a historical commentary as thorough and methodical as that written by the Confucian scholar Cheng Yi, who turned the original text into a coherent work of political theory.
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