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周易Changes of ZhouOur roots
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19works in the local collection
9,834source pages indexed locally
19books available in the English reader
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A modern reflection.
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The meaning you make.
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The collection.
Volume Four
A History of Changes Philosophy
Zhu Bokun
Bibliographic details incomplete
Volume Four · 566 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
History of Changes philosophy, focused here on the late Ming and Qing periods and related appendices.
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Supporting collection
The Mysteries of the Classic of Changes
Zeng Shiqiang
Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2009 · First edition
242 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Introductory lecture-style interpretation of the Zhouyi, yin-yang, trigrams, and Qian and Kun.
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Modern Annotations on the Great Commentaries of the Zhouyi
Gao Heng
Tsinghua University Press · 2010 · First edition
518 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Modern annotations and textual analysis of the Great Commentaries and related Zhouyi materials.
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Primary website source
Zhouyi (The Book of Changes)
Yang Tiancai and Zhang Shanwen
Zhonghua Book Company · 2011 · First edition
707 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Complete 64-hexagram text, annotations, modern-language renderings, and the principal commentaries traditionally called the Ten Wings.
Supporting collection
Fifteen Lectures on the Zhouyi
Liao Mingchun
Peking University Press · 2012 · Second edition
334 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Fifteen scholarly lectures on trigrams, hexagrams, the Classic, and the Commentaries.
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Collated and Annotated Commentary on the Zhouyi
Wang Bi; collated and annotated by Lou Yulie
Zhonghua Book Company · 2012 · First edition
310 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Wang Bi's Zhouyi commentary and outline, collated and annotated by Lou Yulie, with related Han Kangbo material.
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Volume One
Zhouyi Translation and Annotation: Latest Revised Edition
Huang Shouqi and Zhang Shanwen
Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 · Latest revised edition
Volume One · 373 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Volume One of a two-volume revised translation and annotation, covering front matter and Hexagrams 1-30.
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Song Edition of the Zhouyi Commentary and Subcommentary
Wang Bi, Han Kangbo, Kong Yingda, and Yu Tianbao
Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 · First edition
654 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Facsimile-based Song edition of the Zhouyi commentary and subcommentary, translated from page images.
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Miscellaneous Talks on the Classic of Changes
Nan Huaijin
Fudan University Press · 2018 · First edition; 2019 reprint
250 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Accessible talks on the Zhouyi, images, numbers, trigrams, and selected hexagrams.
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Explication of the Introduction to the Study of the Changes / Supplement to the Introduction to the Original Meaning of the Zhou Changes
Hu Fangping (Song); Hu Yigui (Yuan); collated by Gu Jiming
Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 · First edition
663 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
Two works in one supplied edition. All 663 source pages retained; Chinese OCR and English translation remain research drafts. Title follows title and imprint pages 3–4 (翼傳, not filename 翼傅).
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Lower / second physical volume only
Collected Annotations on the Zhou Changes, Volume II
Lai Zhide (Ming); collated by Wang Fengxian
Zhonghua Book Company
Lower / second physical volume only · 443 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 443 supplied scan pages retained, including five empty English pages. Only the lower physical volume was supplied; do not describe this as the complete edition. Publication year has not been established from the supplied evidence.
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Dictionary of the Zhou Changes, Revised Edition
Zhang Shanwen
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House · 2021 · Revised edition
895 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 895 supplied pages retained. A reference for concepts and interpretive traditions, not a substitute for a sourced BaZi calculation policy. OCR and English remain research drafts.
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Volume I only — first of three physical volumes
Balanced Exposition of the Zhou Changes, Volume I
Li Guangdi (Qing); collated by Yang Jun
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 · First edition
Volume I only — first of three physical volumes · 465 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 465 supplied pages retained, but only the first physical volume of the three-volume edition is supplied. Do not describe this as the complete work. Translation remains a research draft.
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Volume I of three
History of Image-and-Number Learning in the Zhou Changes, Volume I: Pre-Qin, Han, and Tang
Lin Zhongjun
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House · 2022
Volume I of three · 761 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 761 supplied pages retained. First volume of the three-volume history, supplied together in this collection. Original source-page coordinates and OCR uncertainties are preserved; historical interpretations do not establish a new calculation policy.
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Volume II of three
History of Image-and-Number Learning in the Zhou Changes, Volume II: Song and Yuan
Lin Zhongjun
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House · 2022
Volume II of three · 632 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 632 supplied pages retained. Second volume of the three-volume history. OCR flags unclear diagram details on source pages 52 and 210; preserve these limitations rather than inferring missing mappings.
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Volume III of three
History of Image-and-Number Learning in the Zhou Changes, Volume III: Ming and Qing
Lin Zhongjun
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House · 2022
Volume III of three · 694 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 694 supplied pages retained. Third volume of the three-volume history. A study of differing historical approaches, not a single universal divination method. Translation and OCR uncertainties remain recorded.
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Introduction to the Zhou Changes, Expanded Edition
Liu Dajun
Bashu Book Society · 2021 · Expanded edition; second printing, August 2021
370 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 370 supplied source pages retained. The imprint distinguishes 2020 CIP cataloguing from the 2021 edition and printing. Draft translation has known terminology errors, including Analects on source page 30; consult review notes.
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Collected Explanations of the Zhou Changes
Li Dingzuo (Tang); collated by Wang Fengxian
Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 · First edition
502 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 502 supplied pages retained. A compilation of earlier interpretations; attributed historical explanations are not a single unanimous doctrine. OCR and English remain research drafts.
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Volumes 1–3 and 7–9, with front matter and publisher advertisements
San Ming Tong Hui (三命通會)
Wan Minying (萬民英), writing as Yuwu Shanren (育吾山人); attributed in source PDF p. 7
Shanghai Wenrui Book Bureau (上海文瑞書局), first title leaf; later fascicle imprint unverified · Historical printed scan; imprint year unverified
Volumes 1–3 and 7–9, with front matter and publisher advertisements · 455 source pages · English translation: unreviewed draft
All 455 supplied scan pages are represented, including 453 with English text. The scan contains volumes 1–3 and 7–9, not the complete twelve-volume work. Chinese OCR and English translation remain machine drafts; their historical claims are evidence for study, not validated predictions or executable calculation policy.
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