Articles, sources and criticism
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20 February 2013
This article contains a lot of tiny images, which makes it difficult to post it as a WordPress article. In these cases a PDF works much better. Download here: The Yijing…
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(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…
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11 June 2012
(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…
Read article →1 December 2008
The fifth line of hexagram 2 has the sentence 黃裳元吉 Most often this is translated as something like ‘yellow lower garment/skirt. Greatly auspicious’. The Mawangdui manuscript made me ponder about another…
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5 October 2008
The first three characters of line 2 of hexagram 2, 直方大, are most often translated as ‘straight, square, great’ (Wilhelm, Wu Jing-Nuan, Huang, etc.). It is a sentence which has always…
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