Translation Notes · 13 Aug 2012
More than words
(Most of the oracle bone images in this article are from the site of Richard Sears. Quotes from classics are from the site of Donald Sturgeon.) The Chinese character yan 言 is…
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Zhouyi studies · 8 Jul 2004
Philosophy or hard fact?
Most translations of the Yi have a philosophical foundation: they look at the text with the idea that what it says has not to be taken literally, but serves as a metaphor…
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Translation Notes · 11 Jun 2012
Another take on ‘you fu 有孚’
(To see all Chinese characters in this article use Firefox with the Hanazono font.) A few years ago I wrote an article about the meaning of fu 孚. It was appreciated by…
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