This page links to a number of sites on the web that are of interest. I can't claim to have found them all, so if you have a favourite that's not listed here, or if one of these links is broken, then please let me know.

I've tried to group the links into relevant sections to facilitate an optimal browsing experience. If you're interested in printed volumes, here's a more traditional bibliography.

Chinese Language Resources

I'm not even close to being a fluent a reader, but I'm trying to improve my vocabulary at least. There are a good collection of resources for investigating the Chinese language on the web, including some that have material specific to the Yijing 易經.

Probably the premier resource for the Chinese Classics in English (and French) is Wengu - Chinese Classics and Translations. This is an excellent site, beautifully presented! The Yijing text is based around the English version of Wilhelm translation; but, most importantly, it includes the text in Chinese with roll-over lexicon entries for each character. It also includes a on-line casting mechanism. There are also translations for a wide range of other Chinese classics, including the San Shi Jing (三字經) Three Character Classic, itself a good learning resource, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Daodejing, and many others.

The ChinaPage site also has some good language resources. Of particular interest to Yijing scholars are its various versions of the Yijing text in Chinese, including a downloadable PDF document using Unicode fonts.

The Zhongwen site by Rick Harbaugh is a general Chinese language resource (中文 - literally meaning "central pattern", is the name the Chinese give to their language). The site contains the texts of some of the classics, including The Art of War and the Daodejing, but not the Yijing. It also has an excellent interactive Chinese/English dictionary, which contains the complete characters from Harbaugh's book "Chinese Characters: A Geneology and Dictionary". All characters are clickable, taking you to their definitions; with good search facilities and a character tree, which is an interesting way of exploring related characters.

The Arch Chinese site has an excellent interactive character learning tool which shows the strokes and the order they should be drawn. The same screen shows basic definitions for the character and lists compound character words and phrases in which it is used. It also has graded vocabulary training lists and a range of other facilities. A very useful and usable site.

At home I'm using the Learn Chinese software which the site describes as "a simple and efficient piece of software" to help you learn to read Chinese texts and acquire Chinese vocabulary. The dictionary includes 25,000 words, and a neat feature that lets you draw a character and often find the result in the dictionary. The also site includes forums for user discussion.

General Yijing Sites

The sites listed in this section all have material that directly addresses the Yijing in various ways; there is a tremendous amount of material available, and this list only scratches the surface.

LiSe Heyboer calls her Yijing The Book of the Sun and Moon. This an extensive site with a good collection of material. I particularly like the Images of Yi Jing, a picture and short epigram for each hexagram.

Danny Van den Berghe has his Four Pillars site. The animation on the home page, of yang iterating up through a column of yin is wonderful. In addition to Yijing material, this has information on Feng Shui and other topics, as well as software downloads.

The I Ching Resources site does what it says on the tin. It has some case studies and a simplified version of the standard Wilhelm translation.

Tony Granillo has a site devoted to his intriguing Master's thesis, where he believes he has proven the efficacy of the Yi Jing in an experimental manner. I've not had time to investigate this yet.

Adele Aldridge continues to develop her beautiful pictorial interpretation of the Yijing on her blog, called I Ching Meditations. This is subtitled "A Woman's Book of Changes". Her original site, now called Adele Art Cafe is also still available.

Ewald Berkers has a wide ranging site called Eclectic Energies which brings together material on Chakras, Acupressure, Exercise, Energy and Enneagrams in addition to the Yijing. It has a very well presented on-line reading mechanism that uses a text written by Berkers himself.

Anthony Judge has a site called Laetus in Praesens which contains a wide range of material written over many years. The Yijing specific papers are here.

Denis Mair has a web site call YiJing Poetics, containing a collection of original articles. Most of these are available as PDF downloads. As a description of the value of the Book of Change, he says, "The symbols of the I Ching have drawn later commentators into a personally engaged, reflective discussion about life-situations."

Richard Wilhelm's German tranlsation of the book opened up Change to the Western mind, and still stands as a measure to which other translations are compared. This page, maintained by the School of Wisdom, gives an excellent overview of his life and work, including a link to Jung's biographical comments.

The Dao House site contains an extensive collection of links relating to Daoist thought. Of particular interest are the sections Physics, Biophysics... Metaphysics? and Yijing (I Ching).

No collection of Yijing web site links would be complete without a mention of Chris Lofting's I Ching Plus site (a version without Javascript is here). Chris takes as his title The Book of Structures - the Unchanging in the Book of Change. He has an extensive collection of wide ranging articles based around the central theme of dichotomy.

Chris Lofting also has a new site promoting his new book The Emotional I Ching which is worth a look. Subtitled "A Language of the Vague" he proclaims that "this is not divination, this is prediction" and puts forward a non-random technique for arriving at hexagrams by considering the dynamics of a situation on various dimensions. The actual dimensions used are conceptually similar to some of the schemes laid out by Cleary in his "I Ching Mandalas" book.

Based in Scotland, Catherine Norwood-Aird's Imperial Yijing site offers some information on an unpublished technique called "Chue Style Six Kinships Hexagram" which claims to offer "a high degree of precision and objectivity" for all kinds of questions. The site includes a collection of anecdotes describing the lineage of the technique.

Confirming my contention that a significant proportion of geeks have an interest in the Yijing, the Wikipedia has an entry for the subject including a translation of the hexagram texts.

Whilst a number of the sites above include good collections of Yijing links, the best known place on the web is the Zhou Yi site.  This is maintained by Lorraine Patsco, of Annotated Bibliography fame.

Mathematical Material

This is my particular area of interest. I can't claim to have read all of this material in depth, but these are the sites that have caught my attention at the moment. Most of the sites have material directly connected to the Yijing, but occasionally I include a site for more general interest.

Alain Stalder is a physicist with a promising site called Exact Philosophy where he plans to explore a number of issues, including space, time and change. He has an interesting development of the four-fold bigram pattern from first principles, and another thought provoking page relating the trigrams to the four Greek elements.

Billy Culver had an interesting site, called Energy as it Flows in the Universe, but it seems to have dropped off the web. Of particular interest to me is his Fluvial Polar Diffusion lattice, you can find my version of this diagram here.  This is a very interesting structure that has some important connections to the Boolean lattice and wave sequences.

At I Ching Connexion there is a computational approach to the Yi that introduces a new topological system for arranging the hexagrams, using the sides of a hexagon to indicate the yin and yang lines. The site includes an excellent on-line reading system showing the topology in action.

The Geometry of the I Ching introduces something called the Cullinane sequence for the hexagrams, and uses a notation based on the four sides and two diagonals in a square to indicate the yin and yang lines. The resulting rune-like symbols are intruiging, if difficult to relate visually to the gua. This page was redone June 2006 with some additional diagrams that are a real help in understanding the layouts.

The Lost Diagram is a very simple and elegant idea from someone called Tracy Valleau in which she identifies a common property of both the pre-heaven and later-heaven arrangements of the trigrams. Ingenious! Check it out.

Tony Smith has a page making connections to all kinds of ideas from physics and genetics.  The main body of his site, including a downloadable PDF book is also well worth a visit. I've not had chance to really look at his Yijing material yet.

Bernhard Pfennigschmidt's site - SIPP - the search for symmetry, beauty and connection - has some interesting material. If you want to jump straight to the Yijing material, then this is your link.

Thomas J McFarlane has a site called Integral Science, which aims to construct a "comprehensive science of inner and outer experience". There is a lot of interesting material some of which indirectly addresses the image and number approach to change from the perspective of the spiritual significance of mathematics.

Authors' Sites

Whilst every one with a web site is an author, this set of links is to sites of authors who are mainly known for their print work.

Steve Marshall, author of The Mandate of Heaven, has an excellent site called Yijing Dao: Calling Crane in the Shade. He has provided a complete unicode transcription of the 1935 Harvard version of main text of the Zhouyi (and a version in Big-5). There is also some good introductory material, excellent reviews and an extensive collection of annotated links.

The I Ching on the Net is Greg Whincup's site. Author of Rediscovering the I Ching, he has a good, categorised collection of links and information about his book.

Kirk McElhearn is the translator of Cyrille Javary's excellent Understanding the I Ching book into English, and also the author of an interesting article called "The Key to the Yijing". He has a page devoted to the Yijing.

Jane Schorre and Carrin Dunne have a site called Arts of China, where there are publicizing their book Yijing Wondering and Wandering. The first half of the book features an explaination of the traditional King Wen sequence, and the second half an extended exploration of the psychological and spiritual meanings in the work. Jane Schoore is also the author of How to Grasp the Bird's Tail if You Don't Speak Chinese, which is also an excellent book exploring the meaning of the names of the traditional postures from Taiji Quan.

Carol Anothony has published an extensive range of books on the Yijing. The site for Anthony Publishing lists all of her books and offers on-line purchasing. The site also includes material about her training institute, and Yijing councelling (see below).

Translations and Interpretations

If you're looking for an on-line translation of the text, then there are a number of options available to you.  

The full text of the Wilhelm/Baynes version is available from Akira Rabelias's web site with all the hexagrams on a single page.

Bradford Hatcher's excellent Hermetica site includes translations and an interesting and extensive commentary for the Yijing - I have to say that his version is one of my favourites. It also includes a translation of the Dao De Jing.

Tuck Chang has been working on his own translation of the Yijing for a number of years. His material is now on-line, published as Unveiling the Mystery of the I-Ching at iching123. In addition to the hexagrams, the site also includes commentary translations and a range of interesting background stories.

The Original I Ching site, from Dan Stackhouse has some interesting material. The "Hints" section has some good observations about how to approach reading the Changes, and his characterization of the Yijing as an awareness practice is particularly resonant for me.

The Wu Weifarer has a translation. There are no presentation frills, just a single page with all the texts.

Don't forget that some of the other sites listed here also include translations.

Discussion Groups

There are a lot of discussion groups devoted to the Yijing on the web. These days they all seem to be hosted by Yahoo. Although some of the memberships overlap, each group has its own particular flavour.

Hilary Barrett's Clarity site hosts a number of message boards under the I Ching Community heading. There are often some very experienced people reading these lists, so you should expect a high level of discussion.

Midaughter administers a general Yijing discussion group hosted by Yahoo.  This is an active group, but it requires you to join as a member (which also requires Yahoo membership) before you can read or post messages.

Ray Langley administers another general discussion group on Yahoo. You can read messages without being a member, but you need to be a member to post.

Chris Lofting has a Yahoo group devoted to the discussion of his I Ching Plus material. This centres on the analysis of neurological and cognitive processes in humans and regarding these processes aid in creating/identifying meaning. You need to be a member to view or send messages.

The venerable Hexagram-8 mailing list was one of the oldest, email-based discussion groups, administered by Ron Hale-Evans. It is no longer active, but its web presence still hosts an archive of old discussions with a lot of very interesting material for the determined data miner.

Consultants

A few of the other sites listed here offer consultation in some form (Steve Marshall, for example), but the following sites specialise in consultancy services.

Hilary Barrett's I Ching with Clarity offers a range of readings and on-line tutoring to suit different needs and pockets. The various courses available look well structured and are supported by newsletter and an on-line community. Based in the UK, this site also has an excellent collection of resource links.

Cesca Diebschlag is based in Sussex and offers personal, telephone and email consultations through her I Ching Consultation site, which also contains a few articles. She has been working with the Yi for nearly forty years (as of 2007) and brings a broad range of relevant experience to her work - she is also an experienced counsellor and acupuncturist.

Providing a particular form of consulting Change, Carol Anthony has an internation list of Yijing counselors who are versed in her books. The role of the counselor is to mediate between the Sage and the person consulting.

Neijia Sites

Neijia 内家 refers to the internal martial arts of China. The sites listed below all have some connection to my own training.

Paul Zabwodski was my first Taiji teacher able to demonstrate and explain the martial content of the art. Based in Devon, his site is First Gate Chi Arts.

Ian Cameron, with whom I am 門人 men ren, was my teacher for nearly 16 years from 1992 until 2008. Based in Edinburgh, his school is Five Winds Tai Chi Chuan.

Ian Cameron studied Taiji in Hong Kong with Sifu Cheng Tin-Hung (鄭天熊). Sifu Cheng was the founder of the Hong Kong Tai Chi Association.

One of the key ideas in Taiji Quan is "internal strength". Ian Young maintains some pages detailing a practical approach to this topic, based around articles from a now out-of-print magazine.

I am an instructor member of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain.

Non-English Language Sites

There are many web sites in languages other than English. Here are a few that I've come across. I'm afraid that I can't comment on them, because I don't read any of the languages!

Harmen Mesker has an extensive site in Dutch called I Tjing Centrum, which I'm guessing translates as "Yi Jing Central".