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I Ching |  | Authors: Kerson Huang, Rosemary Huang
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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ISBN: 0894803190
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51282
EAN: 9780894803192
ASIN: 0894803190
Publication Date: January 10, 1987
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A beautiful new translation of the Chinese classic, preserving the starkly poetic voice of the original version and presenting new findings previously available only in Chinese.
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 Cut to the bone September 26, 2009
H. Smith
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll begin by saying that dealing with the seller was entirely satisfactory. The book itself, Kerson Huang's translation of the I Ching, is a flawed effort. Huang's long introductory chapters are engaging, literate, and informative. The actual body of the text is so spare, so lean, that there is little left to trigger the reader's own intuitive faculties. Huang's version of the I Ching strips away all of the Confucian commentaries and narratives, which is his goal. What is left is really not functional as a book of divination.
I would recommend Huang's introductory material highly, and for this reason I do not regret the purchase. When it comes to practical divination, it will be necessary to look to other translations with more flesh on the bone.
 Read this review for I Ching's answer about itself!!! December 10, 2007
Warrior Princess
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first started using a different translation of the I Ching by another author about thirty years ago. I stopped because the answers I got didn't make sense most of the time. Four or five years ago, I bought this version by Kerson and Rosemary Huang and have been amazed ever since. I agree with most of what the other reviewers have written so I won't repeat that, but I did do something else for this review. I asked the I Ching if it had anything to say about using the I Ching for the reader of this review. The response was Hexagram 39 (changing line 6) turning into Hexagram 53. The changing line reads "Following the wise counsel of a trusted advisor can give us a sense of strength and purpose and a feeling of confidence about our undertakings". If you are looking for a I Ching, buy this one.
Correction to Another Review May 17, 2007
Craig Dickson (San Mateo, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my favorite English edition of the I Ching. However, I mostly wanted to post this review to partly correct a comment made by another reviewer named "szechuan", who says that the matrix of hexagram numbers in this book is incorrect. This is only true of the first printing; it was corrected for later printings, and even that first printing originally came with an errata sheet that gave a corrected matrix. I guess szechuan bought a used copy that no longer had the errata sheet. The error is actually very simple and easy to correct -- the trigrams across the top of the matrix are in the wrong order. They should be in the same order as the trigrams going down the side.
The Best I Ching Resource I have used March 31, 2005
Any reader (California)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been in love with the I ching since my teens, yet other translations have never resonated with me as this one. I recommend knowing this book-It is with me all of the time.
Original text and some serious misprints March 13, 2005
szechuan (Oakland, CA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
As other reviewers have noted, this is a translation which de-Confucianizes the I-Ching and goes to a literal interpretation of the original text. Be aware that there are some serious misprints in the matrix of hexagram numbers at the back of the book; you'll have to either use their symbol/code system to look up your hexagram, or use a matrix from some other book. The Huangs also differ in how they read a moving line in the coin toss method (i.e. if heads are yang, three heads equal a moving yang line, other books read three heads as a moving yin line). This probably isn't a problem as long as you decide which system you'll use before you cast your coins. I gave it three stars because I found it most useful as a background supplement to other versions that I use (the I-Ching Workbook by R.L. Wing and The Complete I-Ching by Alfred Huang), but depending on your situation, this barebones translation may work better for you than it did for me.
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