{"id":8,"date":"2003-06-26T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=8"},"modified":"2003-06-26T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-26T19:02:24","slug":"further_dusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2003\/06\/further_dusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Further dusting and information gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding my previous post, I found some more information about the Chinese books on the Yi. The books were authored by General George T. Cheng during his lifetime.<br \/>\nI was able to find a copy of a letter addressed to him in one of the booklets that I obtained together with the books. The letter is dated 1974 and it comes from the Rochester Institute of Technology inviting Mr. Cheng to &#8220;join and direct the study of the theory and applications of I Ching to computer oriented research&#8221;. That was very interesting although I don&#8217;t know if anything came out of the invitation.<br \/>\nI also discovered doing a search that he was the father of the founder of  &#8220;Organization of Chinese Americans, Eastern Virginia Chapter&#8221; (OCA), Mr. Richard Cheng (he is the person I bought the books from). Mr. Cheng is the Chairman and CEO of ECI Systems &#038; Engineering in Virginia Beach, VA. Furthermore, in a copy of the December 2000 newsletter of the OCA, there is an obituary for General George T. Cheng, that is most telling of the life of this dedicated gentleman. Here is a transcription of that obituary:<br \/>\nquote<br \/>\n=====<br \/>\nGeneral George T. Cheng<br \/>\nPassed Away on December 1, 2000<br \/>\nGeneral George T. Cheng, father of Dr. Richard Cheng,<br \/>\npassed away on December 1, 2000 in Virginia Beach. General<br \/>\nCheng served in the Army of Republic of China leading troops in<br \/>\nWWII and the Civil War in China. He was a professor of<br \/>\nNational Defense University in the ROC. He authored 10 books<br \/>\nof I-Ching, and numerous other publications, and was the<br \/>\nExecutive Director of Taiwan Institute of Confucius Studies.<br \/>\nWe can see that General Cheng had planted some trees and many<br \/>\ngot to enjoy the comfortable shade as a result. We are sorry for<br \/>\nthe loss of a national hero and scholar, and wish the Cheng<br \/>\nfamily the very best. We know and are pleased that his great<br \/>\nspirit has been carried on by his descendants.<br \/>\nunquote<br \/>\n=======<br \/>\nI have added a copy of that letter from the Rochester Institute of Technology to the page where the book pictures are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/yi-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese books on the Yi<\/a><br \/>\nLuis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding my previous post, I found some more information about the Chinese books on the Yi. The books were authored by General George T. Cheng during his lifetime. I was able to find a copy of a letter addressed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2003\/06\/further_dusting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}