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Bibliography

Chinese — primary sources

  • 《周易》Zhouyi — the core text (Western Zhou, c. 1000–750 BCE). The hexagrams, judgments and line statements that every later edition builds on. Public domain.
More Chinese translations
  • 王弼 Wang Bi (226–249 CE), Zhouyi zhu 《周易注》 — the foundational yi-li (meaning-and-principle) commentary, displacing the Han image-and-number tradition and shaping every subsequent reading. Public domain.
  • 朱熹 Zhu Xi (1130–1200), Zhouyi benyi 《周易本義》 — Song-dynasty Neo-Confucian synthesis, restoring focus on the divinatory layer alongside Wang Bi's philosophical reading. Public domain.

English

  • James Legge (1815–1897), The Yî King (1882) — Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI. The canonical English scholarly translation; spare, conservative, kept close to the Chinese. The default translator across myJING. Public domain.
More English translations
  • Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes, The I Ching or Book of Changes (1950) — English rendering of Wilhelm's 1924 German via Baynes; the standard 20th-century Western edition, with a foreword by C.G. Jung.
  • John Blofeld, I Ching: The Book of Change (1965) — practitioner-oriented translation aimed at readers using the text for consultation rather than scholarship.
  • R.G.H. Siu, The Portable Dragon: The Western Man's Guide to the I Ching (1968) — cross-cultural reading that places the hexagrams alongside Western philosophy, science and literature; influential among mid-century practitioners.
  • Da Liu, I Ching Coin Prediction (1975) / I Ching Numerology (1979) — practical handbooks rooted in the Chinese folk-divination tradition; foreground the casting method and the use of the text as oracle.
  • R.L. Wing, The I Ching Workbook (1979) — workbook-style guided edition with worksheets for recording consultations; widely used as a first introduction.
  • Carol K. Anthony, A Guide to the I Ching (1980) — psychologically-oriented reading focused on inner work and ethical development; pairs each hexagram with a meditative commentary.
  • James DeKorne, The Gnostic Book of Changes — gnostic and depth-psychological reading that frames the hexagrams as a map of inner transformation; freely circulated online by the author.
  • Thomas Cleary, The Taoist I Ching (1986) / The Buddhist I Ching (1987) — readings of the text through Liu Yiming's Taoist alchemical commentary and Zhixu's Buddhist commentary respectively; valuable for the school-specific framings.
  • Wei Tat Wu, I Ching: Book of Changes (1991) — Hong Kong scholar's translation with line-by-line commentary drawn from the classical Chinese commentarial tradition.
  • Stephen Karcher / Rudolf Ritsema, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change (1994) — Eranos-project translation foregrounding the core ideograms; idiosyncratic but influential among Western practitioners.
  • Edward L. Shaughnessy, I Ching: The Classic of Changes (1996) — translation of the Mawangdui silk manuscript (c. 168 BCE), the oldest substantially complete Yijing text known; complements the received version.
  • Bradford Hatcher, The Book of Changes: Word by Word (2009) — modern character-level study edition with extensive concordance. Full text: hermetica.info/Yijing1+2.pdf.

German

  • Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930), I Ging: Das Buch der Wandlungen (1924) — Wilhelm's German translation, prepared with Lao Naixuan over a decade in Qingdao. The source for the Wilhelm/Baynes English edition and a major influence on European reception. Public domain.

French

  • Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre (1837–1902), Le Yi: King ou Livre des Changements de la dynastie des Tsheou (1885–1893) — two-volume French translation with extensive Chinese commentary, especially Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi. Public domain.

Japanese

  • 高島嘉右衛門 Takashima Kaemon (1832–1914), 高島易断 Takashima Ekidan (1886) — Meiji-era Japanese reading and case-record commentary; scanned by the National Diet Library and surfaced inline on the ja locale of myJING. Public domain.

Russian

  • Ю.К. Щуцкий Yulian K. Shchutsky (1897–1938), Китайская классическая «Книга перемен» (1937; published posthumously 1960) — Soviet sinologist's translation with extensive philological apparatus; the standard Russian-language edition. Public domain.
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