For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Undersea Eye” (“Haidi Yan”): English EditionCompiled in the late Southern Song period, Undersea Eye is a concise, rigorous core text for Six Lines Divination (Liu Yao), closely connected to Wen Wang Gua and the Na Jia Method. It restores clarity to practice ...

This is a first-person narration story, telling the family history of the author who was born in Shanghai, and what the author saw and heard in the first thirty years of his life. It records his experience from elementary school, middle school to working as a factory worker for ten years, and then his process of being admitted to university and graduate school. Readers can see the changes in Shanghai's customs and customs from the author's growth process from the 1950s to the early 1980s. ...

This book introduces a unique 3D printing method that prints metal parts by ejecting metal micro-droplets: a low-cost, contactless, and environmentally friendly 3D printing technology. This book follows a deductive approach to describe the fundamentals of metal droplet-based 3D printing and reveal the relationships and unique features among multiple specific techniques used in droplet-based 3D printing. It starts with a general description of the principles and techniques involved in this ...

A revised edition of the definitive translation of the world’s most important book of divination• More than 64,000 copies sold of the first edition• The first English translation from within the tradition by a Chinese Taoist Master• Includes translations of the Ten Wings--the commentaries by Confucius essential to the I Ching’s insightsTranslated by the eminent Taoist Master Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching has been praised by scholars and new stu...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2025 • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year • An August 2025 Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book • One of Bookbub's Best Nonfiction of 2025 • A China Books Review Best Book of 2025 • An Inc. Best Business Book of 2025A rivetin...

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they...

From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-nineteen outbreak.On January twenty-five, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, her nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of...

This is an essential study tool for students seeking to learn Japanese and dramatically improve their ability to read and write kanji and kana.Students have been reading and writing the Japanese language for centuries, and they build their knowledge most successfully when they rely on a trusted resource. Today's most trusted—and readily available—resource is A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. This classic, best-selling learning and reference work is ...

A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYBy now, everyone in the world knows the song "Gangnam Style" and Psy, an instantly recognizable star. But the song's international popularity is no passing fad. "Gangnam Style" is only one tool in South Korea's extraordinarily elaborate and effective strategy to become a major world superpower by first becoming the world's number one pop c...

This insightful translation and analysis of three core martial arts texts distills the fundamental principles of T'ai Chi for beginner studentsThe deepest benefits of T’ai Chi cannot be realized without an understanding of its underlying principles. This book presents these principles through translations of three core classics of T’ai Chi that are often considered the "T’ai Chi Bible," accompanied by the author’s insightful commentary. Master Liao demonstrates how...

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter centuryMore than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled ...

The first book to cover the complete Taoist teachings on form, structure, and symbol in the I Ching.• Provides many new patterns and diagrams for visualizing the layout of the 64 hexagrams.• Includes advanced teachings on the hosts of the hexagrams, the mutual hexagrams, and the core hexagrams.• Written by Taoist Master Alfred Huang, author of The Complete I Ching.The Numerology of the I Ching is the first book to bring the complete Taoist ...