Articles, sources and criticism
Explore historical sources, translations, research articles and critical discussions of the Yijing.
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19 November 2023
Archive notice: This workshop has finished. Registration is closed. Many users of the Yijing struggle with the text of the oracle: how can you read it in such a way that…
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9 May 2023
A new series of videos – the title says it all: Examples of Early Yijing Divination (1): the misformed feet of Gongmeng Zhi – YouTube
Read article →30 January 2022
Exciting news! Johannes Bloemsma and I started a Yi podcast: Casting Changes: Podcasts about the YI in Times of Movement. The first podcast is available now – an introduction about who…
Read article →20 August 2021
A video about the distorted view that exists of the history of the two most important trigram circles.
Read article →19 January 2021
Examining a cryptic sentence from the Shuogua 說卦.
Read article →23 November 2020
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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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
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,…
Read article →9 August 2020
In September I’ll start another The Power of the Hexagrams Course! If you agree with one or more of the following statements, then this workshop is for you: –…
Read article →10 July 2020
In this video we are going to look at the phrase she da chuan 涉大川, ‘cross the great river’ and the early usage of the keywords from this phrase.
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