Richard J. Smith
Rice University

NOTE: There are many different transliterations of the Chinese title of this work, including I-ching, I Ching, Yiking, etc. [usually translated the Book of Changes]. The work is also known as the Zhouyi or Chou-i [The Zhou/Chou Changes]. Bear in mind that the books and articles listed below vary substantially in terms of scholarly rigor. Works produced by major university presses are usually reliable.

I. Some Websites

For a good introduction to Yijing-related resources on the World Wide Web, including links to both "conventional" and "unconventional" commentaries, consult Greg Whincup's "The I Ching on the Net (Zhouyi dianlin)" at: http://www.pacificcoast.net/~wh/Index.html. For some other websites that suggest a far wider range of possibilities, see:

http://members.aol.com/IChing1/atoj.htm
http://members.aol.com/IChing1/ktoz.htm
http://bersoft.com/chou/index.htm
http://users.lanminds.com/~tlc/iching/links.html
http://www.avana.net/~wrcroy/iching.html
http://www.cads.com.tw/eg/eicm.htm
http://www.facade.com/attraction/i_ching/
http://www.ns.net/~cpolish/DEFAULT.HTM
http://www.starsaga.com/i*ching.htm
http://www.teleport.com/~bioching/
http://www1.shore.net/~rdl/iching/IChing.html

II. Some Print Sources (books and articles)

Black, Alison. Man and Nature in the Philosophical Thought of Wang Fu-chih. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.

Blofeld, John, trans. I Ching. The Book of Change. New York: Dutton, 1968.

Chan, Chiu Ming. Book of Changes: An Interpretation for the Modern Age. Singapore: Asiaspac Publications, 1997.

Chan, Wing-tsit. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Chang Cheng-lang. "An Interpretation of the Divinatory Inscriptions on Early Chou Bronzes," Early China 6 (1980-1981), pp. 80-96.

Chang, Ch'i-yun. "The Book of Changes (I Ching)--A Philosophical Masterpiece Mirroring the Zeit-Geist of the Western Chou Dynasty." Chinese Culture, 6.4 (October, 1965), pp. 1-41.

Chang Li-wen. "An Analysis of Chu Hsi's System of Thought of I," in Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism, ed. Wing-tsit Chan, pp. 292-311. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Chen, Chi-yun. "A Confucian Magnate's Idea of Political Violence: Hsun Shuang's Interpretation of the Book of Changes," T'oung Pao, series 2, 54 (1960), pp. 73-115.

Cheng, Chung-ying. "Li and Ch'i in the I Ching: A Reconsideration of Being and Non-Being in Chinese Philosophy," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 14 (1987), pp. 1-38.

Cheng, Chung-ying and Elton Johnson. "A Bibliography of the I Ching in Western Languages." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 14 (1987), pp. 73-90.

Cheng, Chung-ying, "Confucius, Heidegger, and the Philosophy of the I Ching," Philosophy East and West, 37.1 (January, 1987), pp. 51-70

Cleary, Thomas. The Buddhist I Ching. Boston and London: Shambala Press, 1987.

Cleary, Thomas. The Taoist I Ching. Boston and London: Shambala Press, 1986.

Cleary, Thomas. I Ching Mandalas: A Program of Study for the Book of Changes. Boston: Shambala Press, 1989.

Cleary, Thomas. The I Ching. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 1992.

Collins, Roy. The Fu Hsi I Ching: The Early Heaven Sequence. New York and London: University Press of America, 1993.

Davis, Scott."Operating the Yijing Apparatus: A Compositional Analysis." The Oracle: The Journal of Yijing Studies, 2.7 (Summer, 1998), pp.

De Woskin, Kenneth. Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-shih. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Dickinson, Gary and Steve Moore. "Trigrams and Tortoises: Sino-Tibetan Divination. Oracle: The Journal of the I Ching [Yijing] Society, 1.5 (Summer, 1997).

Dhiegh, Khigh Alx. The Eleventh Wing: An Exposition of the Dynamics of I Ching for Now. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1973.

Elman, Benjamin. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California Press, 1990.

Elman, Benjamin. From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1984.

de Fancourt, William (G.W. Dickinson). Warp and Weft: In Search of the I-Ching. Freshfields, Chieveley, Berks (England): Capall Bann Publishing, 1997.

Freeman, Michael. "From Adept to Worthy: The Philosophical Career of Shao Yung," Journal of the American Oriental Society,102 (1982), pp. 477-91.

Fu, Youde. The I Ching: Text and Annotated Translation. Jinan: Shandong Friendship Publishing House, 1995 (based on the "modern Chinese translation" by Liu Dajun and Lin Zhongjun).

Fung, Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

Graham, A. C. (1989). Disputers of the Tao. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1989.

Gu, Linyu. "Time As Emotion vs. Time as Moralization: Whitehead and the Yijing." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 25 (1998), pp. 209-236.

Hacker, Edward. "Temperature and the Assignment of the Hexagrams of the I-Ching to the Calendar." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 9 (1982), pp. 395-400.

Hacker, Edward. "A Note on Formal Properties of the Later Heaven Sequence." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 10 (1983), pp. 169-171.

Hacker, Edward. "Order in the Textual Sequence of the Hexagrams of the I Ching." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 14 (1987), pp. 59-64.

Henderson, John B. The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Henderson, John B. Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Henderson, John B. The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish and Early Christian Patterns. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998.

Ho, Peng-Yoke. "The System of the Book of Changes and Chinese Science." Japanese Studies in the History of Science, 11 (1972), pp. 23-39.

Huang, Alfred: The Complete I Ching. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1998.

Jou, Tsung Hwa. The Tao of I Ching: Way to Divination. Taipei: Tai Chi Foundation, 1984.

Karcher, Stephen: The Elements of the I Ching. Rockport, Mass.: Element Books, 1995.

Kiang, Koh Kok. The I Ching: An Illustrated Guide to the Chinese Art of Divination. Singapore: Asiapac, 1993.

de LaCouperie, Terrien. "The Oldest Book of the Chinese (the Yih-King) and Its Authors." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society." n.s. 14 (1882), pp. 781-289.

Lee, Jung Young. "The I Ching and Its Basic Philosophy of Inner Process." Chinese Culture, 16.2 (June, 1975), pp. 63-70.

Lee, Jung Young. Embracing Change: Postmodern Interpretations of the I Ching from a Christian Perspective. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1994.

Legge, James. The I Ching [originally rendered Yi King]. New York: Dover Publications, 1963 (reprint of 1899 edition).

Liang, Tao-wei. "A Comparative Study of the I Ching and Buddhism." Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, 15 (1970), pp. 111-14

Lik, Kuen Tong. "The Concept of Time in Whitehead and the I Ching." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1.3-4 (June-September, 1974), pp. 373-93.

Liu, Da. I Ching Numerology. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979.

Liu Dajun. "A Preliminary Investigation of the Silk Manuscript Yijing." Zhouyi Network, 1 (Jan. 1986), pp. 13-26.

Liu, Dajun and Lin Zhongjun. See under Fu Youde.

Liu, Shu-hsien. "The Use of Analogy and Symbolism in Traditional Chinese Philosophy." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1 (1974).

Loewe, Michael and Carmen Blacker. Oracles and Divination. Boulder: Shambala Press, 1981.

Loy, David. "On the Meaning of the I Ching." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 14 (1987), pp. 39-57.

Lundbaek, Knud. Joseph de Premare (1666-1736), S.J.: Chinese Philology and Figurism. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1991.

Lynn, Richard John. The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

McCaffree, Joe E. Bible and I Ching Relationships. Hong Kong and Seattle: South Sky Book Co, 1982.

McKenna, Stephen and Victor Mair. "A Reordering of the Hexagrams of the I Ching." Philosophy East and West, 29.4 (October, 1979), pp. 421-41.

Moore, Steve. The Trigrams of Han: Inner Structures of the I Ching. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (England): Acquarian Press, 1989.

Mou, Bo. "An Analysis of the Ideographic Nature and Structure of the Hexagram in Yijing: From the Perspective of Philosophy of Language." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 25:3 (September, 1998), pp. 305-320.

Ng, Wai-ming. "I Ching Scholarship in Ch'ing China: A Historical and Comparative Study," Chinese Culture, 37.1 (March, 1996), pp. 57-68.

Ng, Wai-ming. "Quantitative Notes on I Ching Scholarship in Tokugawa Japan," Japan Foundation Newsletter, 23.5 (February, 1996), pp. 17-19.

Ng, Wai-ming. "Study and the Uses of the I Ching in Tokugawa Japan." Sino-Japanese Studies, 9.2 (April, 1997), pp. 24-44.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The History of I Ching in Medieval Japan." Journal of Asian History, 31.1 (July, 1997), pp. 25-46.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The Hollyhock and the Hexagrams: The I Ching and Tokugawa Thought and Culture." Princeton University Ph.D. dissertation, Asian Studies, 1996.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in Ancient Japan." Asian Culture Quarterly, 26.2 (Summer, 1996, pp. 73-76.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in Late Yi Thought." Journal of Korean Thought, 2 (October, 1998), pp.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in Shinto Thought of Tokugawa Japan." Philosophy East and West, 48.4 (October, 1998), pp. 568-91.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in the Adaptation of Western Science in Tokugawa Japan." Chinese Science, 15, 1998, pp.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in the Military Thought of Tokugawa Japan." Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 5.1 (April, 1996), pp. 11-29.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The I Ching in Tokugawa Medical Thought." East Asian Library Journal, Spring, 1998, pp.

Ng, Wai-ming. "The Yijing in Buddhist-Confucian Relations in Tokugawa Japan." Studies in Central and East Asian Religions, 10 (1998) , pp.

Ng, Wai-ming. The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Palmer, Martin et al. I Ching: The Shamanic Oracle of Change. London: Thorsons, 1995.

Peterson, Willard. ''Making Connections: 'Commentary on the Attached Verbalizations' of the Book of Change," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 42 (1982), pp. 67-116.

Peterson, Willard. Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.

Riegal, Jeffrey. "A Textual Note on the I Ching." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 103.3 (July-September, 1983), pp. 601-605.

Ritsema, Rudolf and Stephen Karcher, trans. I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change. Brisbane: Element Books Limited, 1994.

Rutt, Richard. Zhouyi: The Book of Changes. Richmond, Surry (England): Curzon Press, 1996.

Ryan, James A. Leibniz's Binary System and Shao Yong's Yijing," Philosophy East and West, 46.1 (January, 1996), pp. 59-90.

Saso, Michael. "What Is the Ho-t'u?" History of Religions 18 (1978), pp. 399-416.

Schoter, Andreas. "Boolean Algebra and the Yijing." Oracle: The Journal of Yijing Studies, 2.7 (Summer, 1998), pp. 19-34.

Schoter, Andreas. "Correctness and Correspondence." Oracle: The Journal of Yijing Studies, 2.7 (Summer, 1998), pp. 25-37.

Schulz, Larry and Thomas J. Cunningham. "The Seasonal Structure Underlying the Arrangement of Hexagrams in the Yijing." Atlanta: Occasional Paper Series of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1988).

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Shaughnessy, Edward L. "The Origins of an Yijing Line Statement." Early China 20 (1995), 223-40.

Shaughnessy, Edward L. "Zhouyuan Oracle-Bone Inscriptions: Entering the Research Stage?" Early China 11-12 (1985-87), 146-163.

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Smith, Richard J. Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. Boulder, Colorado and London: Westview Press, 1991.

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