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1 online resource : illustrations (some color), facsimiles |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225). |
| Contents |
Introduction : the place of the Zidanku silk manuscripts in Chinese paleography -- The Chu tomb at Zidanku. Accounts of the discovery -- The 1973 excavation -- List of items unearthed from the Chu tomb at Zidanku -- Related documents. Cai Jixiang, examination and verification of the late Zhou silk manuscript -- First preliminary excavation report -- Second preliminary excavation report -- "Dossier on the removal of the chu silk manuscripts to the United States" : a posthumous manuscript by Cai Jixiang -- Relevant letters from Cai Jixiang to John H. Cox -- Fu Peihe's interactions with John H. Cox on behalf of Cai Jixiang -- Wu Zhucun's interactions with John H. Cox on behalf of Cai Jixiang -- How Frederic D. Schultheis brought the silk manuscripts to the United States -- Arthur M. Sackler's last wish -- Paul Singer's recollections -- Further records involving John H. Cox -- The changing whereabouts of the Zidanku silk manuscripts in the United States -- Letter to Milo Cleveland Beach signed by twenty-seven international scholars -- Related photographs -- Timeline. |
| Summary |
The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan) are the only pre-imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to date. Dating to the turn from the fourth to the third centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning basic cosmological concepts in a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts. This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume II, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in 1946; documents the early stages in the research on the finds from the Zidanku tomb and its reexcavation in the 1970s; and accounts for where the manuscripts were kept before becoming the property, respectively, of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York (Manuscript 1), and the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Manuscripts 2 and 3). Superseding previous efforts, this is the definitive account that will set the record straight and establish a new basis for future research on these uniquely important artifacts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Manuscripts, Chinese.
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Manuscripts, Chinese. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- China -- Changsha (Hunan Sheng)
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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China -- Changsha (Hunan Sheng) |
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Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China) -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Falkenhausen, Lothar von, editor, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9882370977 9789882370975 |
| ISBN |
9882377777 (electronic book) |
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9789882377776 (electronic book) |
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9789882370975 |
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9882370977 |
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