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008 201109s2020 si s 0 eng d
020 9789811562143|q(electronic bk.)
020 9789811562136|q(paper)
024 7 10.1007/978-981-15-6214-3|2doi
040 GP|cGP|erda
041 0 eng
050 4 PL2456|b.C3813 2020
072 7 HBJF|2bicssc
072 7 HIS008000|2bisacsh
072 7 NHF|2thema
082 04 951|223
100 1 Chen, Kuang Yu,|eauthor
245 10 Reading of Shang inscriptions /|cby Kuang Yu Chen, Zhenhao
Song, Yuan Liu, Matthew Anderson
264 1 Singapore :|bSpringer Singapore :|bImprint: Springer,
|c2020
300 1 online resource (xiii, 558 pages) :|billustrations,
digital ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
347 text file|bPDF|2rda
505 0 1 Gānzhī Cycle -- 2 The Millet Harvest -- 3 Fifteen Dogs -
- 4 Rain in the First Month -- 5 Rain from the East -- 6
From Daybreak to Morning -- 7 Tricolored Clouds -- 8 Heavy
Rain -- 9 Encounter Gusty Wind -- 10 Strong Gale
520 This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions
(OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing. It
presents 120 rubbings made from unearthed animal bones and
turtle shells that the Shang royal court employed to
record royal divinations 3500 years ago, covering topics
ranging from ancestor worship, rituals, and astronomy to
agriculture, war, and hunting. Each rubbing is accompanied
by a graph-to-graph transcription, a translation and a
detailed annotation. The book is intended for both general
readers and scholars who are interested in ancient
civilizations and Early China in particular, acquainting
them not only with OBI graphs and the development of the
Chinese writing system, but also the history of the Shang
Dynasty. The didactic and tutorial format makes this book
ideal for teaching and for self-learning. Sumerian,
Egyptian, Chinese OBI and Mayan constitute the four
pristine writing systems. Of these, only Chinese writing
has remained logographic and survived to the present day.
The study of OBI not only plays a pivotal role in
connecting archaeology to history, but is also of great
importance to the comparative study of the origin of
writing and civilization. Though there are numerous books
on Mayan and Egyptian hieroglyphs, there are very few on
OBI; this book fills that gap
650 0 Oracle bones|zChina|xHistory|yTo 1500
650 0 Logography|xHistory|yTo 1500
650 0 Inscriptions, Chinese $zChina|xHistory|yTo 1500
650 0 Semiotics|zChina|xHistory|yTo 1500
650 0 Signs and symbols|zChina|xHistory|yTo 1500
650 0 Cultural property|zChina
650 0 Historical linguistics|zChina
650 0 Linguistics
650 0 Cultural property
650 0 Historical linguistics
650 14 History of China
651 0 China|xHistory|yTo 1500
651 0 China|xHistory
650 24 Linguistics, general
650 24 Cultural Heritage
650 24 Historical Linguistics
700 1 Song, Zhenhao,|eauthor
700 1 Liu, Yuan,|eauthor
700 1 Anderson, Matthew,|eauthor
710 2 SpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 |tSpringer Nature eBook
856 40 |uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6214-3
912 Springer|b110906304615
