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Subject(s)

• Allan, Sarah [Browse]
• Inscriptions, Chinese—History [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Chinese—History [Browse]
• Material culture—China—History [Browse]
• China—Civilization—To 221 B.C.—Sources [Browse]
• China—Civilization—221 B.C.-960 A.D.—Sources [Browse]
• China—Antiquities [Browse]

Editor

• Cook, Constance A. [Browse]
• Foster, Christopher J. [Browse]
• Blader, Susan, 1943- [Browse]
• Matthewson, Amy [Browse]
• Patten, Gail [Browse]

Author

• Foster, Christopher J. [Browse]

Honoree

• Allan, Sarah [Browse]

Series

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Other title(s)

Unearthing early China with Sarah Allan

ISBN

• 9781438499000 (hardcover)
• 1438499000 (hardcover)

LCCN

2024000339

OCLC

1425246224

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