For the first time in English, this volume provides both general interest readers and specialists the full scope of current scholarship on the Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching or Yijing. In order to achieve this, the book addresses three fundamental issues: the relationship between the sixty-four hexagrams and the Ten Wings (seven pieces of early commentarial writings); the disparate approaches to interpreting the text in Imperial China; and the transformation of the text into a global classic since WWI. With thirty-five chapters, this volume not only deepens one’s scholastic understanding of the Book of Changes but also guides the reader in actual practice.

Tze-ki Hon is Professor Emeritus at State University of New York at Geneseo. He specializes in the philosophy of change in the Yijing and the cultural history of China. Over the last three decades, he wrote four books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005), The Allure of the Nation (2013), Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (with Geoffrey Redmond, 2014), and Revolution as Restoration (2014). He edited (or co-edited) seven volumes: The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China (2007), Beyond the May 4th Paradigm (2008), The Decade of the Great War (2014), Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017), Cold War Cities (2022), The Other Yijing (2022), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War (2025), and Contemporary Interpretations and Readings of the Yijing (2025). His articles have appeared in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Modern China, Monumenta Serica, and Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.