Modern research has revealed the Book of Changes to be a royal divination manual of the Zhou state (500100 BC). This new translation synthesizes the results of modern study, presenting the work in its historical context. The first book to render original Chinese rhymes into rhymed English.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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The best book on the I Ching,
By Fu Xi (Anyang, China) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zhouyi: A New Translation with Commentary of the Book of Changes (Durham East Asia Series) (Hardcover)
I have read many books on I Ching but this is the best byfar. It is the only one which made its history as a text clear tome. The so called Zhouyi is the portion set in writing during the Zhou(later Chinese bronze age). Most of what we consider I Ching is actually commentary from the Han, half a milennium later. Rutt restores the early primitive text which was used for such things as deciding the auspicious occasion for (human?) sacrifices. Rutt sees the Zhou Yi as neither moral or spiritual. We can then see how the Confucian tradition made something quite different of the text with the addition of the Ten Wings. Rutt translates the original Zhou text which consists of what are the hexagram statements and line texts in later forms.He also translates the Ten Wings separately, rather than mixed with the Zhou text as Wilhelm and later Chinese editions do. Rutt's book is the best on the actual, as opposed to mythical text of the Changes. Yet he includes its history in the west and a section entitled, the Fascination of Zhouyi. If you have a serious interest in I Ching, you MUST read this book. It does not supercede the classic Wilhelm/Baynes translation but does far better in letting us see it also as an ancient Chinese text.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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A scholarly study on the original meaning of the I Ching.,
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This review is from: Zhouyi: A New Translation with Commentary of the Book of Changes (Durham East Asia Series) (Hardcover)
There is everything here about the history of the I Ching. Richard Rutt has used among others the studies by Kunst on the oldest meaning of the book (that was lost to the later Confucian commentators of the Ten Wings) to attempt a translation that comes as close as possible to the original meaning. . This brings Bronze Age China back to life, a civilization that even performed human sacrifices. A must for all serious I Ching lovers.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Best English I Ching,
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This review is from: Zhouyi: A New Translation with Commentary of the Book of Changes (Durham East Asia Series) (Hardcover)
I have investigated a large number of English translations of the I Ching and this is the only one I know of that provides serious historical background, including the latest archaeological data and the Mawangdui bamboo strip texts, and a critical approach. In addition to the history of the book there are histories and descriptions of various forms of divination that are presented in a scientific/anthropological fashion, as well as a history of the reception of the book in the West. I was a little alarmed by the rhyming translations of the actual text at first (they can sound rather trite in comparison with Wilhelm/Baynes), but good justifications are given to show that this is the form the original took and that it is similar to the style of the Book of Odes.
For readers with critical intelligence and a sense of history, this is the only English edition of the I Ching that can be taken seriously.
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yarrow wands, hexagram statement, xiang numbers, bagua numerals, constituent trigrams, changeable lines, crying pheasant, hexagram drawings, six line statements, augury favourable, seeing great men, lines changeable, geese settling, favourable augury, nuclear trigrams, loan character, two hexagrams, other hexagrams, auspicious augury, lower trigram, second hexagram, tag character, upper trigram, thorny boughs, homonym meaning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Translation Notes, Gao Heng, Wen Yiduo, The Contents of Zhouyi, Zuo Commentary, Ten Wings, Bronze Age, Western Zhou, Great Treatise, The Background, King Wen, European Languages, Old Chinese, Book of Odes, The Fascination of Zhouyi, Edward Shaughnessy, Yellow River, Book of Documents, Book of Changes, Eastern Zhou, Richard Kunst, Wang Hai, Warring States, Kong Yingda, Duke Zhao Browse Sample Pages:
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yarrow wands, hexagram statement, xiang numbers, bagua numerals, constituent trigrams, changeable lines, crying pheasant, hexagram drawings, six line statements, augury favourable, seeing great men, lines changeable, geese settling, favourable augury, nuclear trigrams, loan character, two hexagrams, other hexagrams, auspicious augury, lower trigram, second hexagram, tag character, upper trigram, thorny boughs, homonym meaning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Translation Notes, Gao Heng, Wen Yiduo, The Contents of Zhouyi, Zuo Commentary, Ten Wings, Bronze Age, Western Zhou, Great Treatise, The Background, King Wen, European Languages, Old Chinese, Book of Odes, The Fascination of Zhouyi, Edward Shaughnessy, Yellow River, Book of Documents, Book of Changes, Eastern Zhou, Richard Kunst, Wang Hai, Warring States, Kong Yingda, Duke Zhao Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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