Edward L Shaughnessy
Biographic Data
| ID | 170941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward L Shaughnessy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaughnessy |
| SIGNATURE | SHAUGHNESSY E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Newell Ann Van Auken: Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals
Over the last fifteen years, Newell Ann Van Auken has established herself as the Western world’s foremost authority on the Chunqiu 春秋 (Spring and Autumn), one of China’s traditional five classics. More than that, she is one of the only authorities on the text, or even one of the very few people who has ever read it, at least as an integral text. Most readers encounter it in the course of reading the more entertaining Zuo zhuan 左傳 (Zuo Tradition),…
A Brief History of Ancient China
A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China’s earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE). Organised into five major sections, it examines the political shifts of the major dynasties, the histories of local states, and the lives of key individuals. Drawin…
Writing Early China
"Considers what unearthed written documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China"
The Xia Shang Zhou Duandai Gongcheng Baogao 夏商周斷代工程報告 and Its Chronology of the Western Zhou Dynasty
The Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project was a five-year state-sponsored project, carried out between 1995–2000, to determine an absolute chronology of the Western Zhou dynasty and approximate chronologies of the Xia and Shang dynasties. At the end of the five years, the Project issued a provisional report entitled Report on the 1996–2000 Provisional Results of the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project: Brief Edition detailing its results. A promised fu…
The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divinat…
Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography, by Yuri Pines
A First Reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing
In September, 2019, Anhui University published the first volume of Warring States bamboo-slip manuscripts in its collection. The bamboo slips were purchased by the university in 2015 on the antique market. This volume contains ninety-three slips that correspond with all of or portions of fifty-seven poems in the Guo feng 國風 (Airs of the States) section of the Shi jing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry). The manuscript is written in the script of the ancient …
A Possible Lost Classic: The *She ming, or *Command to She
Volume 8 of Qinghua daxue cang Zhanguo zhujian 清華大學藏戰國竹簡 contains a manuscript entitled by the editors * She ming 攝命 (* Command to She ) , which they argue is the original version of the ancient-script “Jiong ming” 囧命 (“Command to Jiong”) chapter of the Shangshu 尚書. I review the evidence for this and further provide a full translation of the text. I also consider possible implications of the * She ming for Western Zhou history, and how the text …
Remembrances of Li Xueqin (1933–2019)
I first met Li Xueqin in 1981, when he was a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and I was teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Paul Thompson and I took a train to Cambridge to invite him to London for a few weeks-Paul said we should pay a scholar of his caliber the courtesy of going in person rather than writing to him. In London, Li spent an hour or so every morning happily working his way through all of the galleries of …
David S. Nivison, the Bamboo Annals, and the Chronology of Xia: Personal Reflections on Historical Method
David Shepherd Nivison (1923-2014) devoted the last three and a half decades of his life to an attempt to reconstruct the original text of the Bamboo Annals and to use that text to reconstruct the absolute chronology of ancient China. Nivison’s attempt to reconstruct that chronology involved astronomy; textual criticism, especially—though not exclusively—of the Bamboo Annals ; and a considerable amount of historiographical conjecture concerning b…
The Tsinghua Manuscript *Zheng Wen Gong wen Tai Bo and the Question of the Production of Manuscripts in Early China
Volume 6 of Qinghua daxue cang Zhanguo zhujian, published in 2016, includes two copies of a text entitled by the editors *Zheng Wen Gong wen Tai Bo 鄭文公問太伯 (Duke Wen of Zheng Asks Tai Bo). The two copies of this single text are extremely similar, both in terms of content and in terms of calligraphy, but also display certain occasional differences and one systematic difference in the positioning of the "city" (yi 邑) signific (bushou 部首) within char…
Of Trees, a Son, and Kingship: Recovering an Ancient Chinese Dream
The first volume of the Tsinghua University Warring States bamboo-strip manuscripts contains a text with passages that match medieval quotations of a text referred to as Cheng Wu 程寤 or Awakening at Cheng , which in turn is said to be a lost chapter of the Yi Zhou Shu 逸周書 or Leftover Zhou Documents . The passages concern one of Chinese literature's earliest interpretations of a dream, and were quoted in medieval encyclopedias in their sections on …
An Overview of Western Sinologists' Studies of Chinese Paleography (西方漢學家中國古文字研究概要)
This essay, the first chapter in the author'sXifang Hanxue chutu wenxian yanjiu gaiyao西方漢學出土文獻研究概要 (Essentials of Western Sinology's Research on Unearthed Documents), provides a survey of Western Sinology's research on Chinese paleography from the time of the first such study (1881) through 2015. The survey includes especially the following topics: general discussions of Chinese paleography and/or unearthed documents, the origins of Chinese writi…
Historical Perspectives on the Introduction of the Chariot into China
The first systematic archaeological excavations conducted by Academia Sinica, from 1929 to 1937 in Anyang, revealed a late Shang site with a surprisingly developed material culture. The Chinese chariot, as do chariots everywhere, consists of three basic components: a chariot box in which the driver and others ride, an axle and wheel assemblage, and a harnessing assemblage. The Archaeological Context of the Chinese Chariot. Some intuition of the c…
Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscriptions from Ancient China
To Punish the Person: A Reading Note Regarding a Punctuation Mark in the Tsinghua Manuscript * Ming Xun
The Tsinghua manuscript * Ming xun 命訓 contains a compound sentence that reads: 大命殜罰少命 = 身. In an earlier article, the author translated this sentence as “The great mandate for generations punishes; the minor mandates command the person,” understanding the “ = ” mark to indicate that the preceding character ming 命 was to be repeated. However, scholars in China have recently noted that the “ = ” mark can also indicate the repetition of characters t…
Varieties of Textual Variants: Evidence From the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip * Ming Xun Manuscript
Ming xun 命訓 is a text included among the Tsinghua University corpus of Warring States manuscripts and corresponds with a chapter by the same title in the Yi Zhou shu 逸周書. Although the manuscript and received text are quite similar, nevertheless there are numerous textual variants between them. This study provides examples of these variants, divided into five different categories: mis-writing or mis-copying; classifier variation; phonetic loans; g…
Unearthed Documents and the Question of the Oral versus Written Nature of the Classic of Poetry
Prominent Western scholars have proposed that the Shijing was produced in a largely oral context and that writing played little role in the creation and subsequent transmission of the poems. Recent discoveries of several manuscripts of and about these poems call into question this view. I examine these recently published manuscripts as well as other types of paleographic evidence to show that writing played a crucial role in each of the three pha…
Unearthing The Chinese Classics
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the status of the Chinese Classics was precarious, with many intellectuals regarding them as the root of modern China's problems
Exhumer les Classiques chinois
Au début du XXe siècle, le sort des Classiques chinois était précaire, nombre d’intellectuels les considérant comme la source des problèmes de la Chine moderne et préconisant de les enfouir avec les vestiges du passé. Mais les Classiques ne sont ni morts, ni enterrés. Aujourd’hui, plus d’un siècle plus tard, ils continuent littéralement à sortir de terre. Pendant toute la période moderne, le rapport de la Chine à ses Classiques s’est fait avec le…
Culte ancestral, divination et sacrifice dans la Chine ancienne: Sources archéologiques et manuscrites concernant la dynastie des Zhou (xie-iiie s. avant notre ère)
Réflexions additionnelles sur un caractère énigmatique dans les inscriptions oraculaires de Zhouyuan et sur la nature de la divination à l’époque Zhou Dans cette conférence, j’ai examiné l’utilisation de la graphie qui introduit généralement les prières placées à la fin des propositions d’oracles dans les inscriptions de la dynastie des Zhou occidentaux (xie‐ixe s. avant notre ère). Ceci m’a conduit à constater – comme je l’avais fait pour la pre…
Rewriting Early Chinese Texts
A First Reading of the Shanghai Museum Bamboo-Strip Manuscript of the Zhou Yi
This study introduces a bamboo-strip manuscript of the Zhou Yi or Zhou Changes purchased by the Shanghai Museum in 1994. The fragmentary manuscript includes 58 strips, about one-third of the received text of the Zhou Yi . Orthographic features suggest that it was copied in the southern state of Chu about 300 B.C.E. Although the manuscript includes numerous orthographic variants vis-à-vis the received text, it does show that the text was stable by…
Ma Chengyuan 馬承源(1927–2004)
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Zhang Zhenglang 張政烺 (1912–2005)
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Historical Perspectives on The Introduction of The Chariot Into China
A First Reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing
In September, 2019, Anhui University published the first volume of Warring States bamboo-slip manuscripts in its collection. The bamboo slips were purchased by the university in 2015 on the antique market. This volume contains ninety-three slips that correspond with all of or portions of fifty-seven poems in the Guo feng 國風 (Airs of the States) section of the Shi jing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry). The manuscript is written in the script of the ancient …
On The Authenticity of the Bamboo Annals
Thresholds of Reality: George Santayana and Modernist Poetics
“New” Evidence on the Zhou Conquest
The inscription on the Li gui , a vessel unearthed in 1976 in Qishan county of Shaanxi province, by substantiating certain key assertions of traditional Chinese historiography, has once again focused attention on King Wu’s conquest of the Shang and his consequent establishment of the Zhou dynasty. It is the expectation, and ever increasing reality, of discovering ancient records, usually in the form of bone or bronze inscriptions, that makes the …
Fourth Annual Conference of the Chinese Paleography Association
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The Art of Thomas Merton
Recent Approaches to Oracle-Bone Periodization: A Review
The contribution of Qiu Xigui and Lin Yun to the debate over the proper dating of the Diviner Li-group inscriptions require a fundamental revision in oracle-bone periodization methodology. Starting with a review of Dong Zuobin's reasons for placing the Li-group inscriptions in his period IV, this article proceeds to consider the new information provided by the Xiaotun nandi oracle-bone inscriptions excavated in 1973 and by the discovery of the Fu…
Extra-Lineage Cult in the Shang Dynasty A Surrejoinder
I would like to thank Professors Fan, Li, and Wang for what has been for me a most stimulating exchange of ideas on a problem of seminal importance in the history of early China. From these three scholars, we have seen three interpretations, radically different both from each other and also from the interpretation I presented above, of a small set of oracle-bone inscriptions. I believe that these four interpretations represent virtually every pos…
The “Current” Bamboo Annals and the Date of the Zhou Conquest of Shang
Having demonstrated in a previous article entitled “On the Authenticity of the Bamboo Annals ” that the “Current” Bamboo Annals can be a surprisingly reliable source for the history of early China and particularly for the Western Zhou period, in this article the author again examines a brief series of entries from this text, in this case dealing with the death of King Wen and the succession of King Wu. The analysis is divided into three sections,…
The Date of the “Duo You Ding ” and its Significance
The “Duo You ding ,” discovered in 1980 in Chang'an county, Shaanxi, contains a 270-graph inscription recording a major battle between Zhou and Xianyun chariotry. In addition to presenting a complete translation of the inscription, this paper attempts to specify the date of the events narrated. The argument is developed along three lines of inquiry. First, it is shown that personal names mentioned in the inscription require that the events took p…
Zhouyuan Oracle-Bone Inscriptions: Entering the Research Stage
In 1977, some 17,000 pieces of pyromantic turtle-shell, of which nearly 300 pieces were inscribed, were discovered at the site of the Zhou ancestral temple in Qishan, Shaanxi. Scholarship on this important inscriptional source has been hampered by the piecemeal nature of its publication. Now, Wang Yuxin, in his XiZhou jiagu tanlun , has brought together the information and conclusions of sixteen studies published through 1981. In addition, Wang h…
On The Authenticity of the Bamboo Annals
Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization
Historical Perspectives on The Introduction of The Chariot Into China
Forum: Edward L. Shaughnessy
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Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Reception
Preface Connections Irish Connections: Cultural and Familial Irish Connections: Dramatic and Thematic Production History Called on the Green Carpet Notes Selected Bibliography Irish Essays on Danger in Dublin, Editorial, Catholic Bulletin, 1926 Mourning Becomes Electra by St. John Ervine, 1932 Audienced Cheered Actresses,The Irish Independent,1938 O'Neill Play a Triumph, Irish Press, 1962 The Force Behind by Denis Donoghue O'Neill and 'The Ulimat…
A Dictionary of Early Zhou Chinese
Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching . Kidder Smith, Jr. , Peter K. Bol , Joseph Adler , Don J. Wyatt
Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels
The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic structure of the royal court, and lawsuits among the gentry. Moreover, being cast in bronze, the inscriptions preserve exactly the contemporary script and l…
Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist
Journal Article Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist. By Judith Reick Long. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1990. xviii + 286 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-87195-052-9.) Get access Edward L. Shaughnessy Edward L. Shaughnessy Butler University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 698–699, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080141 Published: 01…
Marriage, Divorce, and Revolution: Reading between the Lines of theBook of Changes
The enigmatic images contained in theBook of Changes(Yijing or Zhouyi) have been interpreted, since shortly after the final redaction of the text, to refer to universal themes, transforming a text that was originally used in divination into a repository of wisdom for the ages. While this tradition continues strong more than twenty-five-hundred years after its first emergence, it has been challenged in the present century by a new historiographica…
The Duke of Zhou's Retirement in the East and the Beginnings of the Ministerial-Monarch Debate in Chinese Political Philosophy
Virtually all Chinese historians, past and present, have viewed the Duke of Zhou as a paragon of the virtuous minister. However, in traditional Chinese sources concerning the Duke of Zhou there is also a distinct negative undercurrent, several texts recording that the Duke “resided in the east” in contexts implying that he went into a sort of exile. Given this ambivalence in the history and traditions regarding the Duke of Zhou, the author examin…
A First Reading of the Mawangdui Yijing Manuscript
Among the texts discovered in December, 1973, at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, was by far the earliest manuscript text (copied about 175 B.C.) of the Zhouyi or Zhou Changes, together with various commentaries, some known—such as the “Xici” or “Appended Statements”— and others —”Ersanzi Wen” or “The Two or Three Disciples Ask,” “Yi zhi Yi” or “The Propriety of the Changes ,” and “Yao” or “Essentials”—not heretofore known. Despite the great anticip…
Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels
The Origin of an Yijing Line Statement
This essay begins by examining divination records from the Zhou dynasty (such as those from Zhouyuan and Baoshan, as well as records in traditional texts) showing that the topic of divination was invariably announced in the form of a “charge” indicating the desire of the person for whom the divination was being performed. Next, other accounts of turtle-shell divination (in the Shiji, Guo yu and Zuo zhuan ) are examined to determine how the result…
Western Chou Period
Although chinese intellectuals have generally regarded the Western Chou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.) as the formative period of Chinese culture, because there was no organized church at the time, studies of religion in China often begin with later developments. While this is a legitimate interpretive principle, it is nevertheless certainly the case that there were facets of religious experience characteristic of Western Chou society
Military Histories of Early China: A Review Article
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