I Ching

Based on several new translations of the I Ching, this groundbreaking interpretation explores the meaning of the ancient text and places it within the context of contemporary experience.

In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text.

The I Chingor Book of Changesis a Chinese oracle; a tool of divination, the origins of which stretch back more than 3,000 years. Generations of diviners have asked the I Ching to answer their most burning questions and help them to negotiate relationships, decisions and dilemmas with poise and insight.

In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text.

* A new approach to the seminal Chinese text,The I Chingor theBook of Changes

For the Chinese, the destiny of each individual and the cosmos have always been inextricably linked, and for two thousand years the Yijing, or the Book of Change, has exercised the best minds in the Orient.