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Correspondence to Erica F. Brindley.

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The translators wish to thank the many of those scholars present at a reading workshop on this text at Pennsylvania State University on November 12–13, 2010. Our translation also takes into account the various translations and proposed ordering of the strips by such scholars as Xing Wen 邢文, Ding Sixin, Pang Pu 龐樸, Li Ling, Cao Feng 曹峰, and Donald Harper. For a recent translation, see Tan 2010. See also Ding 2005; Xing 2010; Harper 2009; Cao 2004/5/16; and Pang 2004.

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Brindley, E.F., Goldin, P.R. & Klein, E.S. A Philosophical Translation of the Heng Xian . Dao 12, 145–151 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-013-9322-5

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