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Writing Early China / Edward L. Shaughnessy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaughnessy, Edward L., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
- SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese classics.
- China.
- China--History--Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C--Historiography.
- China--History--Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C--Sources.
- China--History--To 221 B.C--Historiography.
- China--History--To 221 B.C--Sources.
- Genre:
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Considers what unearthed written documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Inscriptions
- Chapter One: History and inscriptions
- Chapter Two: The Bin Gong Xu inscription and the beginnings of the Chinese literary tradition
- Chapter Three: The writing of a late Western Zhou Bronze inscription
- Chapter Four: On the casting of the Art Institute of Chicago's Shi Wang Ding: with remarks on the important position of writing in the consciousness of ancient China
- Chapter Five: A possible lost classic: the *She Ming or *Command to She
- Chapter Six: Varieties of textual variants: evidence from the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip *Ming Xun Manuscript
- Chapter Seven: Unearthed documents and the question of the oral versus written nature of the classic of poetry
- Chapter Eight: A first reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing
- Chapter Nine: The Mu Tianzi Zhuan and King Mu-Period bronzes
- Chapter Ten: The Tsinghua Manuscript *Zheng Wen Gong wen Taibo and the question of the production of manuscripts in early China
- Chapter Eleven: The eighth century BCE Civil War in Jin as seen in the Bamboo Annals
- Chapter Twelve: The Qin *Bian Nian Ji and the beginnings of historical writing in China
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438495231
- 1438495234
- OCLC:
- 1404444998
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