Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014

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Nicholas Jose To Launch John Minford's translation of the I Ching

6pm Tuesday December 16


Professor John Minford's translation of the I Ching has been published! John Minford is a world-renowned translator and Chinese scholar who has devoted many years to the study of this great Chinese classic. It is an honour to announce that at 6pm on Tuesday December 16th this important work will be launched by Professor Nicholas Jose at Asia Bookroom. We hope you will join us.

John Minford's translation of the I Ching has been long awaited. It is dedicated to his revered teacher Professor Liu Ts’un-yan, formerly of the ANU. But while Minford recognizes the importance of the massive Chinese commentary and scholarship that has grown up over two thousand years around this ancient Oracle and Book of Wisdom, he also firmly believes that it has much to offer the modern reader. He has striven to make it a helpful book, stressing the recurring themes of Self-Cultivation and Self-Knowledge. In the words of Anglo-Chinese novelist Timothy Mo, his new translation and commentary is ‘a kind of unholy resurrection, a cable that disappears into the abyss of a darker time. In it the Bronze Age predicts to the Information Age the shadow of what is to come.’

We hope you will join us when Professor Nicholas Jose launches John Minford's I Ching at Asia Bookroom on Tuesday December 16th at 6pm. Following Nicholas Jose's words, John Minford will talk about the I Ching and his translation.

Professor John Minford has translated numerous works from the Chinese, including The Art of War, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and the final two volumes of Cao Xuequin's The Story of the Stone. A list of some of his many publications can found on Wikipedia - please click on the More Details link below to take you directly to his page. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the ANU, he has taught in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. He is currently a professor at the ANU.

Professor Nicholas Jose will launch John Minford's translation of the I Ching. Nicholas Jose has published seven novels, three collections of short stories, a memoir and essays, mostly on Australian and Asian culture. He was president of International PEN Sydney Centre (2002-05), general editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2009), and Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, 2009-10. He teaches Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide, where he is a member of the J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

Do not miss this important launch!

When: 6pm Tuesday December 16th, 2014

Where: Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1 - 3 Lawry Place, Macquarie. ACT

RSVP: By December 15th, either by phoning 6251 5191 or Email Us

Admission by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation

If you can't join us on December the 16th and would like to buy a signed copy of John Minford's translation of the I Ching, email us and we will organise this for you.