The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East

Schwartz, Adam C.

The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East - Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020 - 1 electronic resource (477 p.)

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The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book offers the first complete English annotation of these fascinating epigraphic texts and introduces the reader to key aspects of daily life in early Chinese civilization.


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English

9781501505331 9781501505331;9781501514487

10.1515/9781501505331 doi


Palaeography (history of writing)
Translation & interpretation
Regional studies
Australasian & Pacific history
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

Oracle bone inscriptions Paleography Early China