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"The Complete I Ching marks the first time that an eminent Chinese scholar has translated the original ideographs of the I Ching into English. For more than three thousand years the I Ching has been the most important book of divination in the world. Revered by billions of Chinese as the Classic of Classics and consulted as a source of ancient wisdom, it has been embraced by the West in the last fifty years but always translated by Westerners who brought their own cultural biases to the work, distorting or misunderstanding its true meaning. Master Alfred Huang is a professor of Taoist philosophy and former Dean of Students at Shanghai University. He studied the I Ching--a forbidden book at the time--in secret with one of China's greatest I Ching masters, only to be imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and sentenced to death. While in prison for thirteen years he continued his practice of Tai Chi and meditated on the I Ching, and found the strength to survive.
