Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory. An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents

• Main Author: Shaughnessy, Edward (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2020
• Series: Library of Sinology
• Subjects: Asian history; paleography; bamboo-and-silk manuscripts; bronze inscriptions; oracle-bone inscriptions
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars ha...