Articles, sources and criticism
Explore historical sources, translations, research articles and critical discussions of the Yijing.
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31 May 2020
Archive notice: This workshop has finished. Registration is closed. (Click on the picture to hear the text in a video) The Yijing, the Chinese Book of Changes, is a book of…
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素履往无咎 Su 素: in early texts almost exclusively used as a descriptive adjective: ‘unadorned, plain, not processed or modified’. This also means that what follows it is a noun, an object.…
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Heaven and Humankind Are One: Using the I Ching to Enhance Your Practice and Personal Life “If you wish to be a great doctor you should be well-versed in I Ching.” –Sun Simiao…
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5 August 2019
In 2005 Dong Shan 董珊 from the University of Beijing came across a dagger-axe that was held in a private collection. The axe, dated around 900-800 BC, contains an inscription:…
Read article →30 June 2019
履虎尾不咥人亨 Lü 履: to step on (something); to walk; to proceed. The Mawangdui text has li 禮, ‘rules of conduct’, which reminds of the Xugua 序卦 line about H10: 物畜然後有禮故受之以履: “When…
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25 June 2019
My good friend Ruud Nederveen made a website where you can consult the Yijing and read the text from Wilhelm’s translation. You might think, aren’t there enough of these websites already?…
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17 December 2018
既雨既處。尚德載。婦貞厲。月幾望。君子征凶。 Ji 既: on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions used with the meaning of ‘finished, complete, the end, to stop, the final stage’ (Liu Xinglong 劉興隆,《新編甲骨文字典》, p. 299; Ma Rusen 馬如森, 《殷墟甲骨學》, entry…
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