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Commentary, Philosophy, and Translation: Reading Wang Bi's Commentary to the Yi Jing in a New Way

One of the noteworthy developments in Western sinology in recent years has been the serious attention paid to the Chinese commentarial tradition as a legitimate field of study in its own right as opposed to being just an aid or adjunct to the study of the classics themselves. In addition to John Henderson's majesterial Scripture, Canon and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), which gives an overview of the entire commentarial tradition, Isabelle Robinet's Les commentates du Tao-to kingjusqu'au Vile siecle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1977) and Benjamin Elman's Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), each in its own way, survey more circumscribed commentarial traditions in order to demonstrate broader intellectual developments over time, while such varied classical texts as the Shijing, Mencius, and Da xue have all been the topic of recent in-depth monographic studies. As might be expected, the Yijing tradition has been a particularly rich source for scholarly studies; in addition to Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching, in which there are extended discussions of the commentaries of Shao Yong WM (1011-1077), Su Shi MU (1037-1101), Cheng Yi MM