Kunst, The Original Yijing: A Text, Phonic Transcription, Translation, and Indexs with Sample Glosses, 1985.**

A 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. The text has rhyming schemes and associations some of which "doubtless escape our notice" (p.57).

 

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. 

 

Shaughnessy, I Ching The Classic of Changes, 1996.**  

This is a translation of the Mawangui texts. The Mawangui differs in places from the Received Text, which is the source of most translations. Shaughnessy includes both sets of Chinese texts for each Hexagram on the page facing his English translation of the Mawangui text. 

 

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. 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.” 

 

Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, 2014.**

This consists of fragments of several archeological finds of the Zhouyi — circa 300 BC. 

 

Wincup, Rediscovering the I Ching, 1986.** Provides distinctly different interpretations of several hexagrams, often by translating the name literally and building the theme around the name.

 

 

Rutt, The Book of Changes (Zhouyi), 2002.**   The translation seeks to retain the original Divinary Manual of the Zhou. It includes a discussion of key words and translation notes.

 

The first section gives a history of the book, including a history of the Jesuit's tranlation to Latin in the 1600's going on to the first English, French, and Russian translations prior to the 20th Century.

 

Field, The Duke of Zhou Changes, 2015.*

This book lays out the translation in a table, seperating the divinary elements of a reading: Omen, Counsel, Fortune. The author discusses how an ancient diviner would interpret the text.

 

A long introductory section gives the history of the mythical origins of the Book of Changes.

 

Christensen, The Book of Changes, The Original Core of the I Ching, 2015.*

This book includes a fairly extensive discussion, sometimes technical, of the archeological history of Zhou and earlier divination, ancient texts, and the yarrow stalk method. 

 

The translation is accompanied by notes on each character. I Ching - The Core, 2016 is just the translation and concise comments found in Appendix 1 of the 2015 annotated translation along with a short introduction.

 

Redmond, The I Ching, 2017.* 

The stated purpose of this book is a “translation of the early text, with the later overlays that completely altered how it was read. I have tried to present it as accurately as possible in plain English.

 

 

 

Palmer The Fortune Teller's I Ching, 1986.* 

One primary author's purpose is to improve the commentary based strictly on Chinese sources as opposed to Legge and Wilhelm who looked at it through a Christiain lense/

 

 

Dongliang, Les signes et les mutations, 1994 (French).* 

The first half of this book is history of the I Ching and underlying cosmology. The second half is a translation, giving both the recieved Chinese text and the Mawangui text, a transcription into modern Chinese, and a French translation.