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1.

China through the Ages: History of a Civilization

Book by Franz Michael; Westview Press, 1986

Subjects:

China--Civilization

Collections: History, Entire Library

...as well as oracle bones -- but uninscribed...human life in China very far back...documentation of the oracle bones provide us...HISTORY of China truly begins...in the Shang oracle bones; it was a new...imperial China henceforth...
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Historians of China and Japan

Book by W. G. Beasley, E. G. Pulleyblank; Oxford University Press, 1961

Subjects:

China--History--Historiography, Japan--History--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...political awakening of China came only after the end...materials such as the oracle bones of An-yang, the wooden...consisting of inscriptions on oracle-bones and on bronze, on the...comprehensive history of China, the Shih chi, or Records...
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The History of China

Book by Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling, David Curtis Wright; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

China--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Every school and public library should update its resources on China with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history of China from prehistoric times to 2000. The world's oldest continuing civilization, China's technological, cultural, and philosophical developments have influenced the ...
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Every school and public library should update its resources on China with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history of China from prehistoric times to 2000. The world's oldest continuing civilization, China's technological, cultural, and philosophical developments have influenced the world throughout its long history. Wright, an expert on China, has written a fascinating history that not only makes the complex history of China clear to the reader, but weaves into each era of that history the thematic strands of diplomatic, cultural, and technological history.
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The Great Wall of China

Book by Robert Silverberg; Chilton Books, 1965

Subjects:

China--History, Great Wall Of China (China)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...writing is the direct ancestor of the script in use in China today. The basic principle is the same: each character...1,500 can be read at the present time. Many of the "oracle bones" have thus been deciphered. Some contain simple sentences...
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China Magnificent: Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art

Book by Dagny Carter; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935

Subjects:

Art--China--History

Collections: Entire Library

...type found in various parts of China which is chronologically placed...beginning of this century inscribed oracle bones from the region around Anyang...Chinese and Western scholars. These oracle bones constitute the earliest known Chinese...

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Journal Articles on: oracle bones china

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Graphs, Words, and Meanings: Three Reference Works for Shang Oracle-Bone Studies, with an Excursus on the Religious Role of the Day or Sun

Journal article by David N. Keightley; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997

Subjects:

Chinese language--Archaic Chinese, Inscriptions--Research, Oracle bones--Research, Sinologists--Bibliography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Review Article," Early China 14 (1989): 173-82; Tokyo...refers to Hsu Chin-hsiung, Oracle Bones from the White and Other...Inscriptions of Bronze Age China (Berkeley and Los Angeles...the front and back of oracle-bones; Moshi and Leizuan (the...
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Longshan-Era Urbanism: The Role of Cities in Predynastic China

Journal article by Paola Dematte; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 38, 1999

Subjects:

Anthropological research--China, Archaeology--Research, China--History, Cities and towns--China

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The presence of oracle bones and fine pottery...oldest texts in China (Anonymous 1993a...inscribed Yushe culture oracle bones (c. 1700 B.C...marks, uninscribed oracle bones, and bi discs...Valley and northern China, clusters of walled...
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Mountain Deities in China: The Domestication of the Mountain God and the Subjugation of the Margins

Journal article by Terry F. Kleeman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994

Subjects:

China--Social aspects, Gods--Social aspects, Mountains--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Medicine, and Religion in the China of A.D. 320 (Cambridge...no longer recorded in oracle-bone inscriptions, toward...are indistinguishable in oracle bones and early bronzes. It...that the term di in the oracle bones can be plural, referring...
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David N. Keightley. the Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China (Ca. 1200-1045 BC)

Journal article by John S. Major; China Review International, Vol. 9, 2002

Subjects:

The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China, ca. 1200-1045 BC (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...Major China Research Monograph...forty-six thousand oracle bones are known...of oracle bones, and its most...corpus of oracle-bone inscriptions...Late Shang China"--in other...interest in Early China studies will...illustrations of oracle bones and plastrons...
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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Journal article by Lily Xiao Hong Lee; China Review International, Vol. 11, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty (Book)--Book reviews, Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...and other areas were not practiced often in premodern China. This chapter articulates this tendency with convincing...more ambitious in coverage, taking in writings from the oracle bones of Yin (1600 B.C.E.) to the Song dynasty (to 1279 C.E...

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Magazine Articles on: oracle bones china

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The Long March

Magazine article by Nicholas Clifford; Commonweal, Vol. 133, August 11, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Oracle Bones: A Journey between China's Past and Present: Books (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...new study of China takes its title...of so-called oracle bones, three thousand...stories in Oracle Bones concerns Chen...returned to China from America...running through China, both visible...the foreign, Oracle Bones invites a readers...
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Finding God in China

Magazine article by David Marshall; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2003

Subjects:

The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...aboriginal peoples around the world. Though ignorant of China, Lang boldly suggested that Legge (not to mention St...probably right, and Tylor wrong. Then, in 1899, Shang oracle bones extensively inscribed with the name of the High God, D...
3.

A Forest Sunset and a Chop

Magazine article by Lindsey Hilsum; New Statesman, Vol. 135, June 19, 2006

Subjects:

Business travel--Personal narratives, China--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...unique. Peter Hessler, in his book Oracle Bones, describes his struggle to register...that fulfilled my fantasies of Old China--potholes, dim sum stalls, ancient...green square. The day before I left China, I signed the lease and sealed it...
4.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chinese Paintings

Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 246, April 23, 1988

Subjects:

Chinese painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Chinese--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...animated ideogram from the calligraphy nearby? But it is China as an inadvertent laboratory of historically induced artistic...At the turn of the century, what came to be known as "oracle bones" (from the second millennium B.C.), were discovered, bearing...
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Talking the Talk

Magazine article by Sean Paige, Tiffany Danitz, Jennifer G. Hickey, Keith Russell; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, February 9, 1998

Subjects:

Cullum, Blanquita--Practice, Hamblin, Ken--Practice, Matalin, Mary--Practice, North, Oliver L.--Practice, Reagan, Michael--Practice, Talk show hosts--Practice, Talk shows--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...million listeners a day. Though a strong conservative, Hamblin remains a registered Democrat but notes in his trademark no-bones verbiage, "There is as much chance of me voting Democrat as there is me having sex with my daughter." A former civil-rights...

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Newspaper Articles on: oracle bones china

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THE McADO; EXCLUSIVE Scots Student Is Superstar in China after Debut in Opera Wins Chorus of Approval

Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), July 22, 2007

Subjects:

Operas

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with the locals. When he did return to Dundee, he lasted two weeks before feeling compelled to go back to China. Now he is studying Oracle Bones - 4000-year-old fragments of turtle bone containing the oldest known Chinese characters. SUNDAY EMAIL h...
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Calligraphy: Exquisite Art of the Word

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 16, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...16 centuries later in China, Dao-Ji described the...discovered pierced animal bones and shells from the 14th...question the gods with the "oracle-bone" script. Incised...Early scribes cracked bones and shells, as with the...rare tortoise-shell "Oracle Bone." Scribes cracked...

Encyclopedia Articles on: oracle bones china

1 results

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Anyang

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...an-yang, city (1994 est. pop. 458,400), N Henan prov., China, on the Beijing-Guangzhou RR, in a cotton-growing area...the Shang dynasty. Unearthed articles include pottery, oracle bones, stone and jade, chariots, bronzes, and building foundations...

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