Nesbitt, Daniel

Born in 1921, Master Alfred Huang is the author of "The Numerology of the I Ching "and the bestselling "The Complete I Ching. "As a young man, he studied the I Ching-a forbidden book at the time-with some of China's greatest minds only to be branded an antirevolutionary by the Communist government and eventually imprisoned. During his twenty-two years of confinement, he found the strength to survive through meditation on the I Ching. Released in 1979, he immigrated to the United States.

A former dean of students at Shanghai University, he is currently a professor of Taoist philosophy, and a...