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  • The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province): Vol. 1
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  • Li Ling, Translated and Edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen
  • 2019
  • Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only preImperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found todate. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, arranged in a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts. This is the first in a twovolume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in 1946; documents the early stages in the research on the finds from the Zidanku tomb and its reexcavation in the 1970s; and accounts for where the manuscripts were kept before becoming the property, respectively, of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York (Manuscript 1), and the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Manuscripts 2 and 3). Superseding previous efforts, this is the definitive account that will sets the record straight and establishes a new basis for future research on these uniquely important artifacts.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xi-xxiv
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  1. Translator’s Preface
  2. L. v. F
  3. pp. xxv-xxvi
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  1. The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province)
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. PART A. The Chu Tomb at Zidanku
  2. p. 3
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  1. I. Accounts of the Discovery
  2. pp. 4-19
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  1. II. The 1973 Excavation
  2. pp. 20-29
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  1. III. List of Items Unearthed from the Chu Tomb at Zidanku
  2. p. 30
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  1. IV. Figures
  2. pp. 31-60
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  1. PART B. Related Documents
  2. p. 61
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  1. I. Examination and Verification of the Late Zhou Silk Manuscript
  2. Cai Jixiang
  3. pp. 62-99
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  1. II. First Preliminary Excavation Report
  2. pp. 100-104
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  1. III. Second Preliminary Excavation Report
  2. pp. 105-124
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  1. V. Relevant Letters from Cai Jixiang to John H. Cox
  2. pp. 125-129
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  1. VI. Fu Peihe’s Interactions with John H. Coxon Behalf of Cai Jixiang
  2. pp. 130-134
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  1. VII. Wu Zhucun’s Interactions with John H. Cox on Behalf of Cai Jixiang
  2. pp. 135-144
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  1. VIII. How Frederic D. Schultheis Brought the Silk Manuscripts to the United States
  2. pp. 145-153
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  1. IX. Arthur M. Sackler’s Last Wish
  2. pp. 154-161
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  1. X. Paul Singer’s Recollections
  2. pp. 162-168
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  1. XI.Further Records Involving John H. Cox
  2. pp. 169-174
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  1. XII. The Changing Whereabouts of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in the United States
  2. pp. 175-186
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  1. XIII. Letter to Milo Cleveland Beach Signed by Twenty-Seven International Scholars
  2. pp. 187-190
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  1. PART C. Related Photographs
  1. 1. Changsha
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  1. 2. Changsha: College of Yale-in-China, Yali Middle School, and the Hsiang-Ya Medical College
  2. pp. 193-194
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  1. 3. Tomb Looting at Changsha during the 1930s
  2. pp. 195-196
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  1. 4. Cai Jixiang and His Family
  2. pp. 197-198
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  1. 5. Mingxiacun No. 5, Shanghai: Home of Cai Jixiang from 1937 to1943
  2. p. 199
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  1. 6. Shanghai: Wugong Hotel, Cai Jixiang’s Place of Lodging in 1946
  2. p. 200
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  1. 7. Shanghai: Gascogne Apartments, John Cox’s Place of Lodging in 1946
  2. pp. 201-203
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  1. 8. Li Ling
  2. p. 204
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  1. 9. Bai Rongjin
  2. pp. 205-206
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  1. PART D. Timeline
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  1. 1897–1927
  2. pp. 208-209
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  1. 1928–1936
  2. pp. 209-210
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  1. 1937–1945
  2. pp. 210-211
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  1. 1946–1949
  2. pp. 211-212
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  1. 1950–1960
  2. pp. 212-213
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  1. 1961–1965
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  1. 1966–1970
  2. p. 214
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  1. 1971–1980
  2. pp. 214-215
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  1. 1981–1990
  2. p. 215
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  1. 1991–2013
  2. pp. 216-217
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 218-226
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