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Book Review: Cheng Yi's [I]The Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes[/I]

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An interesting new translation is out of Cheng Yi's The Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes, edited and translated by L. Michael Harrington, with Introduction by L. Michael Harrington and Robin R. Wang from Yale University Press, 2019.

Cheng Yi (1033–1107) lived during the Song dynasty, and was one of the era’s great thinkers. His Yijing work greatly influenced subsequent generations. Harrington's version is extremely thorough, and includes introduction to Cheng's thoughts, notes, glossary. People may be familiar with Cheng Yi's commentary from Thomas Cleary's version I Ching: The Tao of Organization. The translator estimates that Cleary's version is drastically abridged, by more than 50%. Highly recommended for serious readers.

Read my review at Contemplating the I Ching.

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