The first known Chinese calendar : a reconstruction by the synchronic evidential approach

The first known Chinese calendar refers to the calendar embodied in the Yin oracle-bone inscriptions (OBI). Since 1925, the two-layered evidential method has been the standard approach to interpreting them. This method combines primary inscriptional evidence with secondary materials, resulting in in...

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Main Author: Liu, Xueshun
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17157