Yi Jing Paperback – July 20, 1999

Purchased as a gift

It is great to have the Chinese Text along with the English.

thanks

My history with the I Ching is nearly 40 years and I have collected several translations, but this has become my authoritative text in a matter of days since I acquired it. It is succinct, dynamic, and rich.It is based in the Taoist tradition, which predates the Confucian interpretations that have predominated until now (and that have served me well to date). The ancient characters are reproduced in tandem with translation, rendering an immediacy that is amazing.But as we say, "The test of a pudding is in the eating."The scholarly background for the interpretation for a single hexagram, "Zenith", provides stunning clarity of meaning in an instance that other translations - far more verbose - meander towards but do not approach.