Sources of Shang history
Subtitle: the oracle-bone inscriptions of bronze age China
By: David N. Keightley.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Inscriptions, Chinese; Oracle bones -- China; China -- History -- Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C. -- Sources
Description: The sources of Shang history is focused on the era of the eight or nine kings from Wu Ting to Ti Hsin for which contemporary Shang inscriptions, a series of divination inscriptions carved onto approximately one hundred thousand scapula and plastron fragments over three thousand years ago, are available.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 229-256.
Includes index.