I Ching
Subtitle: the book of change
By: translated by David Hinton
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780374536428
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Yi jing
Work titles: Yi jing. English
Description: "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. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting grew. Although it was and is widely used for divination, the I Ching is also a book of poetic philosophy, deeply valued by artists and intellectuals, and Hinton's translation restores it to its original lyrical form. Previous translations have rendered the I Ching as a divination text full of arcane language and extensive commentary. Though informative, these versions rarely hint at the work's philosophical heart, let alone its literary beauty. Here, Hinton translates only the original stratum of the text, revealing a fully formed work of literature in its own right. The result is full of wild imagery, fables, aphorisms, and stories. Acclaimed for the eloquence of his many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, Hinton has reinvented the I Ching as an exciting contemporary text at once primal and postmodern."--Amazon.com.
Notes: First published: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).

Text translated from the Chinese.