Writing Early China

Edward L. Shaughnessy is Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rewriting Early Chinese Texts, also published by SUNY Press.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Inscriptions

1. History and Inscriptions

2. The Bin Gong Xu Inscription and the Origins of the Chinese Literary Tradition

3. The Writing of a Late Western Zhou Bronze Inscription

4. 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

Part II: The Classics

5. A Possible Lost Classic: The *She Ming or *Command to She

6. Varieties of Textual Variants: Evidence from the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip *Ming Xun Manuscript

7. Unearthed Documents and the Question of the Oral versus Written Nature of the Shi Jing

8. A First Reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing

Part III: Manuscripts

9. The Mu Tianzi Zhuan and King Mu–Period Bronzes

10. The Tsinghua Manuscript *Zheng Wen Gong wen Tai Bo and the Question of the Production of Manuscripts in Early China

11. The Eighth Century BCE Civil War in Jin as Seen in the Bamboo Annals: On the Nature of the Tomb Text and Its Significance for the “Current” Bamboo Annals

12. The Qin *Bian Nian Ji and the Beginnings of Historical Writing in China

Notes
Bibliography
Index