Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) was a sinologist, theologian, and missionary who translated many ancient Chinese works and wrote several books on Chinese philosophy and civilization. His acclaimed German translation of the I Ching from Chinese served as the basis for this Bollingen edition. Cary F. Baynes (1883-1977) was a translator and Jungian psychologist. C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was the founder of analytical psychology and one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Hellmut Wilhelm (1905-1990) was a scholar of Chinese literature and history and a world-renowned expert on the I Ching. He was the son of Richard Wilhelm. Eliot Weinberger is a translator, essayist, and critic whose many books include Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei and The Life of Tu Fu.