The Chu silk manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province) Volume I, Discovery and transmission Volume I, Discovery and transmission

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 diagrammati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Li, Ling, 1948- (-)
Otros Autores: Falkenhausen, Lothar von
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Chino
Publicado: Hong Kong [China] : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press [2020]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46271491*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.