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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company; 1st Pbk Ed edition (April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0892811455
  • ISBN-13: 978-0892811458
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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"Huang succeeds, also, in producing a work that keeps opening up new vistas of understanding and inviting the reader to explore the many layers of discovery offered by the mathematical, visual and literary dimensions of the classic."

The Book Reader, Spring/Summer 1999
What is constant through the translation is both a sense of tradition and an appreciation of modernity. . . . Throughout is a philosophical calmness, a sense of the intellectual mingling with the spirit of things. Most importantly, Huang makes this a useful Ching, more useful for the current temperament than older, more self conscious translations. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clarification, 29 Nov 2006
This edition really is superb; for those familiar with the Wilhelm/Baynes edition it offers a breath of freshness that in no way detracts from the older, more widely known classic translation.
For the sake of clarity, I must say that the review above/below wherein this book is accused of "needing proof reading" was obviously written by someone who has failed to understand the multiple, complementary meanings implicit in each trigram and hexagram. Here I fear we have an all-too-common example of one who, knowing little, loudly disparages the words of one who knows much, while mistaking their own inability to understand for a shortcoming on behalf of the speaker.

A beautiful book.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly excellent rendition of a chinese classic, 20 Oct 1999
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Although only a beginner to the I Ching I have to date found this translation to be endlessly useful. In particular, the fact that the author has studied under I Ching masters in China, then lived in the Western environment gives him a certain expertise that I have found lacking in other translations. If you are serious about studying the I Ching, this is a must.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Thirty Year User Of I Ching Comments, 1 Dec 1998
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This review is from: I Ching (Hardcover)
ALL of the English translations available have failed to achieve the open-endedness of this work. In the beginning of one's study of I Ching, one does not notice so much that the translation is actually muddying the waters. After many many years and digesting many situations, one comes to feel by intuition that the translations, especially Wilhelm, go completely off track at many points. For one thing, it is difficult to live in a world as delineated into "Superior Men" and "Inferior Men" as the Wilhelm translation has it. The terms are so absolute that thinking of one's fellows in them can actually CAUSE errors in action or perception when one is using the book as an oracle. Master Huang uses much less severe terms, which do not carry the harshness of many translations. He himself commented that his own experience with English translations used for oracles could depress him so badly he didn't want to try again! I agree completely from my own experience. This is just something one has to experience through many years to appreciate. The translation is EVERYTHING.

Master Huang's is the cleanest, clearest, least "contaminated" version available I think. "Neutral" might be a way to state this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best I Ching Translation EVER
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5.0 out of 5 stars Many thanks to Master Huang.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding translation
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