The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change

by XI Zhu

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius, which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as well as divination. Over the centuries, hundreds of commentaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231191243
• ISBN13: 9780231191241
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"