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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of
newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been
revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from
China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history,
paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to
show how these fascinating finds change our understanding of
China's past. Organized in a chronological progression from the
Shang to Han periods, and treating bone, bronze, and bamboo-strip
artifacts in turn, the book treats a wide breadth of topics, from
the status of owls in Shang religion to the Zhou court's economic
interest in managing salt resources, and from the conceptual
evolution of de 德 in Spring and Autumn covenants to the
interplay between materiality and text in Han scribal primers.
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo exemplifies the exciting energy
and sense of discovery inspired by these sources in recent years,
while surveying the latest debates and developments shaping early
China as a field.
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Ancestors, kings, and the Dao
\"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Myth and the Making of History
Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship
between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been
explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China
Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial
and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the
very heart of China's origin story. Her work has created an
intellectual space in which the disciplines of philosophy, history,
anthropology, archeology, philology, and literature have come
together, helping to change the way scholars conceive of historical
patterns in China's past. In Myth and the Making of
History , eleven senior and emerging scholars, from both China
and the West, respond to the intellectual challenge raised by
Allan's theoretical model of analysis of mythologized and
historical figures (and even dynasties) that have intrigued
scholars for generations and play a central role in the Chinese
historical imagination. The book will be of great interest to all
scholars and students of China-of whatever level and
discipline-and, indeed, those concerned with other early
civilizations as well.
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Ancient China : a history
\"Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region -- the geographical area that eventually became known as China -- from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as \"China\"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and those studying Chinese Culture and Society more generally.\" -- Publisher's description
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Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context
This interdisciplinary collaboration is the first in-depth study of Chinese Buddhist dice divination. It situates the tenth-century \"Divination of Maheśvara,\" within a deep Chinese backstory while simultaneously tracking its specific method of divination across the Silk Road to ancient India.
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Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts
Numerous recent discoveries in China of ancient tombs have greatly increased our knowledge of ritual and religious practices. These discoveries include excavated oracle bones, bronze, jade, stone and pottery objects, and bamboo manuscripts dating from the twelfth to fourth century Inscribed upon these artifacts are a large number of records of numerical sequences, for which no explanation has been found of how they were produced. Structural links to the Book of Changes, a divination manual that entered the Confucian canon, are evident; yet, the algorithm described therein dates to the slightly later second to first century By combining archeological and statistical evidence, we propose a new methodology that enables us to reconstruct and test cleromantic techniques which can explain how these numerical sequences were generated. Dice and divination stalk use, either in combination or separately, appear in fact to have been underlying the rather stable numerical patterns in ancient China all the way back to the late Shang dynasty (1300-1046 BCE). from the ever-growing database of newly discovered numerical and textual records, can change drastically our understanding of early Chinese history and of the historical development of sophisticated arithmetical practices and the rationalization of chance.
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Death in ancient China : the tale of one man's journey
This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts.
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A Fatal Case of Gu phrase omitted Poisoning in Fourth-Century BC China?
This essay reexamines the fourth century BC divination records found in the tomb of Shao Tuo [phrase omitted] in Baoshan Jingzhou [phrase omitted], Hubei. Using charts, rules, and examples for divination from a newly discovered trigram divination text, called by modern scholars, the Shifa [phrase omitted] (Stalk Method), and preserved in the Tsinghua University collection of Warring States period bamboo manuscripts, the author suggests a radical new way to interpret stalk divination results and speculates upon a possible diagnosis. Essentially, the author unpacks the Baoshan results according to the rules of trigram divination given in the Shifa and not of hexagram divination as in the Zhouyi [phrase omitted] (Changes of Zhou).
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