Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Owl in Oracle-Bone Inscriptions and on Early Ritual Bronzes Wang Tao 2. A Study of the Décor on a Shang Dynasty Architectural Object from the Site of Xiaoshuangqiao in Zhengzhou Han Ding 3. Respecting Heaven and Sacrificing to the Ancestors: Social Order and Ritual Reflected in Early Western Zhou Bronze Drinking Vessel Sets Lu Liancheng 4. The Cheng Wang Fangding Colin Mackenzie 5. The Western Zhou Court and Hedong Salt Lake: Revelations from the Newly Excavated Ba Bo (Elder Ba) Bronze Vessels Han Wei 6. Changing Ideas about De, the Lineage, and the Individual in Fifth- and Fourth-Century BCE China as Reflected in the Wenxian Covenant Texts Crispin Williams 7. The Editing and Publication of Ancient Books Written on Bamboo and Silk Li Ling 8.

The Philological Value of the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts Zhao Pingan and Wang Tingbin 9. A Brief Look at the Shanghai Museum Manuscript "The State of Lu Suffered a Great Drought" Scott Cool 10. An Introduction and Preliminary Translation of the Jiaonü (Instructions for Daughters), a Qin Bamboo Text Anne Behnke Kinney 11. The Shape of the Text: Gu Prisms and Han Primers Christopher J. Foster 12. Sanjiaowei M1: Hand Tools from the Grave of a Hobbyist Woodworker? Charles Sanft Afterword. Wandering Mt. Song, Chatting in Friendship: Exploring Mt.

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