A master translator\'s beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese text 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.
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..
The result is full of wild imagery, fables, aphorisms, and stories.
Here, Hinton translates only the original stratum of the text, revealing a fully formed work of literature in its own right.
Though informative, these versions rarely hint at the work\'s philosophical heart, let alone its literary beauty.
Previous translations have rendered the I Ching as a divination text full of arcane language and extensive commentary.
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.
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.
A master translator\'s beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese text 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
