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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan, and Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan. Edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, and Susan Blader. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024. 2 vols., 332/285 pp. Each vol. $99.00 (hardcover), $34.95 (paper)

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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan, and Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan . Edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, and Susan Blader. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024. 2 vols., 332/285 pp. Each vol. $99.00 (hardcover), $34.95 (paper)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2025

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 4
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References

1 Sarah Allan, “The Myth of the Xia Dynasty,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 116.2 (1984), 242–56.

2 The role of Yi Yin in later excavated manuscript texts is treated as well by Zhao Ping’an and Wang Tingbin in Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo, chap. 9.

3 Myth and the Making of History (180) wrongly gives the last character as 陳.

4 L. Scott Davis, Ancient Thought in the Mega-Text of Zhou Changes, Analects, and Zuo zhuan (Leiden: E. J. Brill, forthcoming).

5 Paul R. Goldin, “Heng xian and the Problem of Studying Looted Artifacts,” Dao 13 (2013), 153–60; Martin Kern, “‘Xi Shuai’ 蟋蟀 (‘Cricket’) and its Consequences; Issues in Early Chinese Poetry and Textual Studies,” Early China 42 (2019), 39–74; Yuri Pines, Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), 43–45, and my review of Pines in Journal of Chinese Studies 73 (2021), 263–67; and Christopher J. Foster, Glenda Chao, and Mercedes Valmisa, The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).