The NYRB China Archive
04.21.16

A Revolutionary Discovery in China

Ian Johnson
from New York Review of Books

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As Beijing prepared to host the 2008 Olympics, a small drama was unfolding in Hong Kong. Two years earlier, middlemen had come into possession of a batch of waterlogged manuscripts that had been...

The NYRB China Archive
02.25.16

What Is the I Ching?

Eliot Weinberger
from New York Review of Books

The I Ching has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the state. It was an...