20 August 2021
The history of trigram circles: facts, sources and their interpretation
A video about the distorted view that exists of the history of the two most important trigram circles.
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19 January 2021
Why does the Yijing have ‘backward-moving numbers’?
Examining a cryptic sentence from the Shuogua 說卦.
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No regrets: about hui 悔
The character hui 悔 appears many times in the Zhouyi, the core text of the Book of Changes, and is often translated as ‘regret’. A student asked me if I could…
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Etymology of Chinese characters, meaning and sound components (2)
Lotti replied to my article, and added a message from Hilary as well. I’ll address both Lotti’s reply and Hilary’s message in this video. I choose to reply by video because…
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25 October 2020
Etymology of Chinese characters, meaning and sound components (1)
In my The Mystery of the Text online course I talk about the etymology of Chinese characters, and how the majority of the Chinese characters are composed: there is a meaning component,…
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