is the first monograph in English on the religious and social functions of early muzhiming (“entombed epitaph inscriptions”). Heng DU received her M.A. in Chinese literature from the University of ...

Money, laws, trade, employment; this is the stuff of early writing, and it's writing like ... Unlike the bamboo used by the Chinese to write on, which rots quickly, and unlike paper, which is ...

A manuscript of commentaries about Confucianism written apparently between the sixth and early seventh centuries ... and other institutions say the writing is also most likely the oldest among ...