Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China |
Contents
CHAPTER 2 | 10 |
Deciphering the InscriptioNS 57 | |
RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY 91 | 11 |
CHAPTER 5 | 22 |
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APPENDIX I | 7 |
The Size of the Sample | 15 |
A Brief Note | 13 |
APPENDIX 5 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 6 |
Index | 7 |
Common terms and phrases
Academia Sinica An-yang ancestors ancestral titles appear appendix auspicious bone and shell bone or shell bovid bronze calligraphy carved Ch'en Meng-chia Ch'ien-pien Ch'üeh Chang Ping-ch'üan charges Chia chia-ku Chia-pien Chih Chou Hung-hsiang cited CKWT crack notations crack numbers Crack-making criteria dated to period diviner's name engravers epigraphic example excavated fakes formula Fu Hsin Fu Keng graphs hollow shapes Hou-pien Hsiao Yi Hsiao-t'un Hsü Chin-hsiung 1974 Hsü-ts'un Hu Hou-hsüan identified inscribed Itō Jimbun Jimbun shakubun k'ao-shih K'u-fang Kaizuka Kwang-chih marginal notations Menzies modern Neolithic oracle bones oracle inscriptions P'an Keng period II period IIb pien Ping-pien plastrons postface preface prognostications pyromancy pyromantic recorded refer reign RFG inscriptions ritual rubbings sacrifice scapulas scapulimancy scholars Serruys Shang divination shang-chi shell fragments Shih-chi Shima short chronology Sōrui suggests tions topic Ts'ui-pien Tung Tung's turtle verifications Wan-li Wang wen-tzu Wu Ting Wu Yi Yen Yi-p'ing Yi-pien Yin-hsü