Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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