LEADER 05127cam a2200613 i 4500001 99129152878806421 005 20240711083723.0 008 230208s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023002623 020 9781438495224 |qhardcover 020 1438495226 |qhardcover 020 |z9781438495231 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1370175494 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dYDX |dBDX |dOCLCO |dUKMGB |dOCLCQ |dEAU |dYDX 042 pcc 043 a-cc--- 050 00 DS741.15 |b.S54 2023 082 00 931/.03 |223/eng/20230214 100 1 Shaughnessy, Edward L., |d1952- |eauthor. 245 10 Writing early China / |cEdward L. Shaughnessy. 264 1 Albany : |bState University of New York Press, |c[2023] 300 xi, 419 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-404) and index. 505 0 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. 520 "Considers what unearthed written documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these types of documents and considers what they reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Opposed to the common view that most knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient China, Shaughnessy demonstrates that by no later than the tenth century BCE scribes were writing lengthy texts like portions of Chinese classics, and that by the fourth century BCE the primary mode of textual transmission was by way of visual copying from one manuscript to another--back cover. 651 0 China |xHistory |yTo 221 B.C. |xSources. 651 0 China |xHistory |yTo 221 B.C. |xHistoriography. 650 0 Inscriptions, Chinese |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Manuscripts, Chinese |xHistory and criticism. 651 0 China |xHistory |yQin dynasty, 221-207 B.C. |xSources. 651 0 China |xHistory |yQin dynasty, 221-207 B.C. |xHistoriography. 651 6 Chine |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |xHistoire |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |yJusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |xSources. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378211 651 6 Chine |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |xHistoire |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |yJusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. |0(CaQQLa)201-0134711 |xHistoriographie. |0(CaQQLa)201-0379024 650 6 Inscriptions chinoises |0(CaQQLa)201-0055438 |xHistoire et critique. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377571 651 6 Chine |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |xHistoire |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |y221-207 av. J.-C. (Dynastie des Qin) |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |xSources. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378211 651 6 Chine |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |xHistoire |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |y221-207 av. J.-C. (Dynastie des Qin) |0(CaQQLa)201-0050307 |xHistoriographie. |0(CaQQLa)201-0379024 650 7 Historiography |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958221 650 7 History |xSources |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958295 650 7 Inscriptions, Chinese |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00973859 650 7 Manuscripts, Chinese |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01008310 651 7 China |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 To 207 B.C. |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 History |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 910 |cC0710mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h924323 914 (OCoLC)on1370175494 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240710 |eprocessed |f1370175494 980 20196009 |f924323 |i99.00 |j81.18 |n40032076025 982 |cf |q32101119518775