Change | Free Book
One of the five classics of Confucianism, the I Ching or Book
of Changes has exerted a living influence in China for three
thousand years. Beginning in the dawn of history as a book of
oracles, it became a book of wisdom--a common source for both
Confucianist and Taoist philosophy. The I Ching was little
known in the West before James Legge's English translation (1882),
and the appearance of the late Richard Wilhelm's poetic translation
into German in 1923 made to work available to a wider public. This
was in turned published in Bollingen Series (1950) in the
translation of Cary F. Baynes.
Now Professor Hellmut Wilhelm,
of the University of Washington, carries on his father's work with a
group of related studies of the Book of Changes. Born and educated
in China, Hellmut Wilhelm grew up in an atmosphere of Chinese
classical tradition. During the winter of 1943, he delivered the
first version of these lectures to a group of Europeans, isolated in
Peking under Japanese occupation, who wished to study the
I Ching.
Besides presenting a lucid explanation and
interpretation of the I Ching, Professor Willhelm brings
forward new scholarship and insights. Mrs. Baynes is again
responsible for the translation.
Originally published in
1960.
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