Chapter Nine The Mu Tianzi Zhuan and King Mu–Period Bronzes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Inscriptions
7. History and Inscriptions 13
8. The Bin Gong Xu Inscription and the Origins of the Chinese Literary Tradition 47
9. The Writing of a Late Western Zhou Bronze Inscription 57
10. On the Casting of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Shi Wang Ding 89
11. The Classics
12. A Possible Lost Classic 113
13. Varieties of Textual Variants 141
14. Unearthed Documents and the Question of the Oral versus Written Nature of the Shi Jing 169
15. A First Reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing 203
16. Manuscripts
17. The Mu Tianzi Zhuan and King Mu–Period Bronzes 237
18. The Tsinghua Manuscript 253
19. The Eighth Century BCE Civil War in Jin as Seen in the Bamboo Annals 265
20. The Qin *Bian Nian Ji and the Beginnings of Historical Writing in China 297
21. Notes 319
22. Bibliography 383
23. Index 405