{"id":53762,"date":"2022-02-27T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=53762"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:05:17","slug":"taipei-101-and-the-i-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=53762","title":{"rendered":"Taipei 101 and the I ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tom Ace:\u00a0 \"It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hexagram_(I_Ching)\">hexagram<\/a> 43 is at the top of Taipei 101 in the attached photo.\u00a0 I remember you saying in 2017 that you and your brother hoped to complete a translation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Ching\">I Ching<\/a>. I hope that's still possible.\"<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stand for Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVjpQuzdyP\">pic.twitter.com\/hVjpQuzdyP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joseph.com (@Joseph82452310) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joseph82452310\/status\/1497598053637042177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>The postmodernist, green skyscraper Taipei 101 was the world's tallest building &#8212; the first to exceed half a kilometer &#8212; from 2004 to 2009.\u00a0 It was preceded by <a title=\"Petronas Towers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petronas_Towers\">Petronas Towers<\/a> in <a title=\"Kuala Lumpur\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuala_Lumpur\">Kuala Lumpur<\/a>, <a title=\"Malaysia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia\">Malaysia<\/a> and succeeded by <a title=\"Burj Khalifa\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burj_Khalifa\">Burj Khalifa<\/a> in <a title=\"Dubai\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dubai\">Dubai<\/a>, <a title=\"United Arab Emirates\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Arab_Emirates\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Observation by Denis Mair:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yes, that's definitely Hexagram 43, Breakthrough! Kind of makes sense for a building that's reaching for the sky.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">At the top right of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hexagram_(I_Ching)\">this list<\/a>, Hexagram 43 is referred to as \"Displacement\", and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafeausoul.com\/oracles\/iching\/guai-determination\">this essay<\/a>, it is called \"Determination\".<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">Denis and I are still wrestling with the abstruse terminology and dense imagery of the I Ching, but the end is in sight.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\"><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/div>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"moz-forward-container\">\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Translating the I ching (Book of Changes)\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=34959\" rel=\"bookmark\">Translating the I ching (Book of Changes)<\/a>\" (10\/11\/17)<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"moz-forward-container\">\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Can't work because of the Ukraine crisis\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=53747\" rel=\"bookmark\">Can't work because of the Ukraine crisis<\/a>\" (2\/25\/22)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tom Ace:\u00a0 \"It looks like hexagram 43 is at the top of Taipei 101 in the attached photo.\u00a0 I remember you saying in 2017 that you and your brother hoped to complete a translation of the I Ching. I hope that's still possible.\" Stand for Ukraine pic.twitter.com\/hVjpQuzdyP &mdash; Joseph.com (@Joseph82452310) February 26, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,260,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-literature","category-language-and-philosophy","category-semiotics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53776,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762\/revisions\/53776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}