This consists of fragments of several archeological finds of the Zhouyi - circa 300 BC. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, 2014.** He also includes a translation of another text found at the Mawangui sites, “The Several Disciples Asked,” “The Properties of the Changes,” “The Essentials,” and “Mu He and Zhao Li.” The Mawangui list the Hexagrams in a different order, so matching the number from other books to the Mawangui text involves looking in a table provided by Shaughnessy. Shaughnessy includes both sets of Chinese texts for each Hexagram on the page facing his English translation of the Mawangui text.

The Mawangui differs in places from the Received Text, which is the source of most translations. This is a translation of the Mawangui texts. Shaughnessy, I Ching The Classic of Changes, 1996.** In addition to a phonic pinyin word-by-word translation of the Old Chinese and an English translation, Kunst presents short essays on key characters, their historical and linguistic history. The text has rhyming schemes and associations some of which 'doubtless escape our notice' (p.57). Kunst, The Original Yijing: A Text, Phonic Transcription, Translation, and Indexs with Sample Glosses, 1985.**Ī masterful piece of scholarship which has become the touchstone for the original meaning of the Zhouyi - although original meaning can never be captured since the people of the time had an outlook so different than today.

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