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The Oxford Handbook of Early China
The volume, The Oxford Handbook on Early China, offers a rich assembly of pioneering research on pre-imperial China. The study is a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach focused on the period before the establishment of imperial rule, encompassing the whole span of time from the Neolithic through Eastern Zhou eras, ca. 5000–250 bce. Our approach is multidisciplinary in encompassing fields ranging from archaeology, anthropology, art history, architecture, metallurgy, literature, religion, paleography, cosmology, prehistory, to history. This interdisciplinary perspective of 33 authors profoundly enhances our understanding of early China and its cultural achievements in multiple directions.
Reviewed by Gina L. Barnes Published in the "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 79.1 (Feb. 2016)
Library of Sinology 3, 2020
Since 1899 more than 73,000 pieces of inscribed divination shell and bone have been found inside the moated enclosure of the Anyang-core at the former capital of the late Shang state. Nearly all of these divinations were done on behalf of the Shang kingsand has led to the apt characterization that oracle bone inscriptions describe their motivations, experiences, and priorities. There are, however, much smaller sets of divination accounts that were done on behalf of members of the Shang elite other than the king.First noticed in the early 1930's, grouped and periodized shortly thereafter, oracle bone inscriptions produced explicitly by or on behalf of "royal familygroups" reveal information about key aspects of daily life in Shang societythat are barely even mentioned in Western scholarship. The newly published Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone inscriptions are a spectacular addition to the corpus of texts from Anyang: hundreds of intact or largely intact turtle shells and bovine scapulae densely inscribed with records of the divinations in which they were used. They were produced on the behalf of a mature prince of the royal family whose parents, both alive and still very much active, almost certainly were the twenty-first Shang king Wu Ding (r. c. 1200 B.C.) and his consort Lady Hao (fu Hao). The Huayuanzhuang East corpus is an unusually homogeneous set of more than two thousand five hundred divination records, produced over a short period of time on behalf of a prince of the royal family. There are typically multiple records of divinations regarding the same or similar topics that can be synchronized together, which not only allows for remarkable access into the esoteric world of divination practice, but also produce micro-reconstructions of what is essentially East Asia's earliest and most complete "day and month planner." Because these texts are unusually linguistically transparent and well preserved, homogeneous in orthography and content, and published to an unprecedentedly high standard, they are also ideal material for learning to read and interpret early epigraphic texts. The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions are a tremendously important Shang archive of "material documents" that were produced by a previously unknown divination and scribal organization. They expose us to an entirely fresh set of perspectives and preoccupationscentering ona member of the royal family at the commencement of China's historical period. The completely annotated English translation of the inscriptions is the first of its kind, and is a vibrant new source of Shang history that can be accessedto rewrite and supplement what we know about early Chinese civilization and life in the ancient world. Before the discerning reader are the motives, preoccupations, and experiences of a late Shang prince working simultaneously in service both for his Majesty, his parents, and hisown family. The first completely annotated English translation of an intact Shang dynasty oracle bone archive.
Asian Archaeology 4(2016):143-147.
Library of Sinology 4, 2020
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.
This bibliography, which contains approximately 15,500 entries, aims to be inclusive from the Neolithic through the pre-Buddhist era and is continuously updated.
This paper is a collection of detailed notes I have taken in preparation for writing a review of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc., 2019) by Adam C. Schwartz, which I submitted to the Journal of American Oriental Society in July, 2020.
Tang Studies, 2023
This year's workshop highlighted scholarship in the following fields: art and archaeology (Pursey and Xue), history (Höckelmann and Zhang), literature (Chan, Davis, and Ditter), and religion (Choo). Building on discussions from earlier workshops, the fifth workshop continued to explore connections between the materiality and textuality of funerary inscriptions. The presentations collectively addressed the literary qualities of the muzhiming text, including rhyme, meter, and use of allusion; relationships between content and literary style in different parts of the muzhiming text; visual and material aspects of the epitaph stone and epitaph cover, including calligraphy, layout, decorative motifs, and physical damage to the epitaph stone; connections between textual, visual, and material aspects; and how accessibility and visibility of the epitaph text and epitaph stone could have influenced readership and reception.
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MASKANA, 2019
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