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The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary

The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary

Schwartz, Adam C.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Sinology [Los], Book 3

Art HistoryGeneral ReferenceChinese History

ISBN10: 1501514482
ISBN13: 9781501514487
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Nov 18 2019
Pages: 487
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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