{"id":3424,"date":"2016-02-29T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:48:14","slug":"weinberger-on-hintons-and-minfords-versions-of-the-i-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Weinberger on Hinton’s and Minford’s versions of the I Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018An<\/a>Eliot Weinberger writes about two new translations of the I Ching<\/em> (Yijing<\/em>) \u6613\u7d93 <\/a>in the NYRB<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The two latest translations of the\u00a0I Ching<\/em>\u00a0couldn\u2019t be more unalike; they are a complementary\u00a0yin<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0yang<\/em>\u00a0of approaches. John Minford is a scholar best known for his work on the magnificent five-volume translation of\u00a0The Story of the Stone <\/em>… His\u00a0I Ching<\/em>, obviously the result of many years of study, is over eight hundred pages long, much of it in small type, and encyclopedic … It is a tour de force of erudition, almost a microcosm of Chinese civilization, much as the\u00a0I Ching<\/em>\u00a0itself was traditionally seen.<\/p>\n

David Hinton is, with Arthur Waley and Burton Watson, the rare example of a literary Sinologist\u2014that is, a classical scholar thoroughly conversant with, and connected to, contemporary literature in English … Hinton\u2019s\u00a0I Ching<\/em>\u00a0is equally inventive. It is quite short, with only two pages allotted to each hexagram … Rather than consulted, it is meant to be read cover to cover, like a book of modern poetry\u2014though it should be quickly said that this is very much a translation, and not an \u201cimitation\u201d or a postmodern elaboration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s how it ends:<\/p>\n

One could say that the\u00a0I Ching<\/em>\u00a0is a mirror of one\u2019s own concerns or expectations. But it\u2019s like one of the bronze mirrors from the Shang dynasty, now covered in a dark blue-green patina so that it doesn\u2019t reflect at all … In the\u00a0I Ching<\/em>, the same word means both \u201cwar prisoner\u201d and \u201csincerity.\u201d There is no book that has gone through as many changes as the\u00a0Book of Change<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Eliot Weinberger writes about two new translations of the I Ching (Yijing) \u6613\u7d93 in the NYRB: The two latest translations of the\u00a0I Ching\u00a0couldn\u2019t be more unalike; they are a complementary\u00a0yin\u00a0and\u00a0yang\u00a0of approaches. 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