Graphs, words, and meanings: three reference works for Shang oracle-bone studies, with an excursus on the religious role of the day or sun.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: Keightley, David N. | Copyright information

All three of the reference works under review will assist scholars who wish to survey the usages and meanings of particular words and phrases that appear in the corpus of the Shang oracle-bone inscriptions. Yinxu jiagu keci leizuan is essentially a needed update of Shima Kunio's invaluable concordance. Kokotsumoji jishaku soran represents a streamlined and far more comprehensive development of Li Xiaoding's collected commentaries. All three works under review are major scholarly resources; th...

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