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Title: Good for historical Purposes and not much else.
Review: This is primarily a sentence by sentence breakdown of the I Ching by Wang Bi. For oracular purposes, it is essentially useless. Wang Bi was primarily interested in the movement and placement of the yin/yang lines that create a hexagram. Now, for some, that is the purpose of the I Ching, and you can understand the meaning of the individual hexagrams [gua] by nothing more than this. Having many translations of the I Ching, I find the book to be dry, and without any real oracular use. It does not "speak" to the question, which puts it in the same class as the very heavy and largely useless "Original I Ching" by Ritsema, et.al., which is nothing much more than an I Ching "concordance and thesaurus." For scholars, it has its uses, and yes, I do own it. But I would never turn to it to answer a real question of any kind.
