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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo : Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan / edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, and Susan Blader.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
- SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allan, Sarah.
- Inscriptions, Chinese--History.
- Inscriptions, Chinese.
- Manuscripts, Chinese--History.
- Manuscripts, Chinese.
- Material culture--China--History.
- Material culture.
- China--Civilization--To 221 B.C--Sources.
- China.
- China--Civilization--221 B.C.-960 A.D--Sources.
- China--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The owl in oracle-bone inscriptions and on early ritual bronzes / Wang Tao
- A study of the décor on a Shang dynasty architectural object from the site of Xiaoshuangqiao in Zhengzhou / Han Ding
- Respecting heaven and sacrificing to the ancestors: social order and ritual reflected in early western Zhou bronze drinking vessel sets / Lu Liancheng
- The Cheng Wang Fangding / Colin Mackenzie
- The western Zhou court and Hedong Salt Lake: revelations from the newly excavated Ba Bo (Elder Ba) bronze vessels / Han Wei
- Changing ideas about De, the lineage, and the individual in fifth- and fourth-century BCE China as reflected in the Wenxian Covenant texts / Crispin Williams
- The editing and publication of ancient books written on bamboo and silk / Li Ling
- The philological value of the Tsinghua bamboo-slip manuscripts / Zhao Pingan, Wang Tingbin
- A brief look at the Shanghai Museum manuscript "The state of Lu suffered a great drought" / Scott Cook
- An introduction and preliminary translation of the Jiaonü (Instructions for daughters), a Qin bamboo text / Anne Behnke Kinney
- The shape of the text: Gu prisms and Han primers / Christopher J. Foster
- Sanjiaowei M1: handtools from the grave of a hobbyist woodworker? / Charles Sanft
- Afterword
- Inscriptions / Qi Wenxin
- About the contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-9901-9
- OCLC:
- 1453197119
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