Reexamining the Sinosphere: Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia
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Chapter 1:  The Transnational Travels of the Yijing 易經 or Classic of Changes
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instruct Vietnamese students using the national pronunciation. Pham points out that “although the learning of the Vietnamese and the Chinese is the same, [our respective] pronunciations [of the written words] are different.” He goes on to say that Dang’s effort to communicate the ideas of the Yijing by means of verse and in national pronunciation has succeeded in creating a version of the classic that is both accessible to Vietnamese students and easy to learn through chanting.68