Gao Heng (, July 29, 1900 – February 2, 1986) was a Chinese philologist and palaeographer, known for his work on the modern interpretation of the ''

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zh ...

''.Richard John Lynn The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi, Columbia University Press, 2004, pg. 22
/ref> Among his most important accomplishments, he published a new translation of the ancient political treatise of

Lord Shang Shang Yang (; c. 390 – 338 BC), also known as Wei Yang () and originally surnamed Gongsun, was a Chinese jurist, philosopher, and politician.Antonio S. Cua (ed.), 2003, p. 362, ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy'"The fifth important legali ...

with an original commentary in the (tumultuous) context of the 1970s.Yuri Pines 尤銳, Dating a Pre-Imperial Text…, Early China, Volume 39 2016 , pp. 145-184
/ref> Gao Heng was born in Shuangyang County,

Jilin Jilin (; Postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three Provinces of China, provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, R ...

Province. In 1953, Gao joined the faculty of

Shandong University Shandong University (, abbreviated as Shanda, , English abbreviation SDU) is a public research comprehensive university in Jinan, Shandong with one campus in Weihai, Shandong and one campus in Qingdao, Shandong and is supported directly by ...

as a professor. From 1957 onwards, he was also a part-time fellow of the Institute of Philosophy in the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

. In 1967, he transferred to Beijing and specialized in ancient and classical literature research.

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1900 births 1986 deaths I Ching Philosophers from Jilin Writers from Changchun Shandong University faculty Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Chinese philologists Chinese palaeographers Educators from Jilin 20th-century philologists National University of Peking alumni {{philology-stub