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Sources of Shang history

by David N. Keightley

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The sources of Shang history is focused on the era of the eight or nine kings from Wu Ting to Ti Hsin for which contemporary Shang inscriptions, a series of divination inscriptions carved onto approximately one hundred thousand scapula and plastron fragments over three thousand years ago, are available.

Chinese InscriptionsHistoryOracle bonesSourcesChina, history, to 221 b.c.