Bamboo Annals
Original title | 竹書紀年 |
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Country | State of Wei, ancient China |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Subject | ancient Chinese history |
Publication date | before 296 BC |
Bamboo Annals | |
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Tâi-lô | Tiok-su kí-liân |
Middle Chinese | |
Middle Chinese | ʈjuwk sho kì nen |
Old Chinese | |
Baxter–Sagart (2014) | *truk s-ta C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s C.nˤing |
The Bamboo Annals (Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián), also known as the Ji Tomb Annals (Chinese: 汲冢紀年; pinyin: Jí Zhǒng Jìnián), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the
Textual history
The original text was buried with
The "current text" (今本 jīnběn) is a 2-scroll version of the text printed in the late 16th century.
The "ancient text" (古本 gǔběn) is a partial version assembled through painstaking examination of quotations of the lost original in pre-Song works by Zhu Youzeng (late 19th century), Wang Guowei (1917) and Fan Xiangyong (1956). Fang Shiming and Wang Xiuling (1981) have systematically collated all the available quotations, instead of following earlier scholars in trying to merge variant forms of a passage into a single text.[12][13] The two works that provide the most quotations, the
Translations
- (in French) Biot, Édouard (1841–42). "Tchou-chou-ki-nien, Annales de bambou Tablettes chronologiques du Livre écrit sur bambou", Journal asiatique, Third series, 12, pp. 537–78, and 13, pp. 203–207, 381–431.
- Legge, James (1865). "The Annals of the Bamboo Books", in "Prolegomena", The Chinese Classics, volume 3, part 1, pp. 105–188. Rpt. (1960) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
- Nivison, David(2009). The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals (Zhushu Jinian Jiemi 竹書紀年解謎). Taipei: Airiti Press.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Knechtges (2014), p. 2343.
- ^ a b Keightley (1978), p. 423.
- ^ a b Nivison (1993), pp. 40–41.
- ^ Shaughnessy (2006), p. 193.
- ^ Nivison (1993), pp. 41, 44.
- ^ Shaughnessy (2006), pp. 193–194.
- ^ Nivison (1993), p. 40.
- ^ Nivison (1993), pp. 39, 42–43.
- ^ Keightley (1978), p. 424.
- ^ Barnard (1993), pp. 50–69.
- ^ Shaughnessy (1986).
- ^ Keightley (1978), pp. 423–424.
- ^ Shaughnessy (2006), p. 209.
- ^ Shaughnessy (2006), pp. 210–222.
Sources
- Works cited
- Barnard, Noel (1993), "Astronomical data from ancient Chinese records: the requirements of historical research methodology" (PDF), East Asian History, 6: 47–74, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03, retrieved 2013-05-03.
- JSTOR 2718906.
- ISBN 978-90-04-27217-0.
- ISBN 1-55729-043-1.
- ISBN 0-7914-3378-1.
- —— (2006), "The Editing and Editions of the Bamboo Annals", Rewriting Early Chinese Texts, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 185ff, ISBN 978-0-7914-6644-5.
Further reading
- Nivison, David S. (1983), "The Dates of Western Chou", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 43 (2): 481–580, JSTOR 2719108.
- —— (1999), "The Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties. The 'Modern Text' Bamboo Annals" (PDF), Sino-Platonic Papers, 93. (summary).
- —— (2009), The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals, Taipei: Airiti Press, )
- —— (2011), "Epilogue to The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals" (PDF), Journal of Chinese Studies, 53: 1–32. (responding to Shaughnessy (2011))
- Shao, Dongfang (邵東方) (2002), "Controversy over the "modern text" Bamboo Annals and its relation to three dynasties chronology", Journal of East Asian Archaeology, 4 (1): 367–374, .
- ——— (2010), Zhúshū jìnián yánjiū lùngǎo 竹書紀年研究論稿 [Critical Reflection on Current Debates about the Bamboo Annals] (in Chinese), Taipei: Airiti Press, ISBN 978-986-85182-9-2.
- Shaughnessy, Edward L. (2011), "Of Riddles and Recoveries: The Bamboo Annals, Ancient Chronology, and the Work of David Nivison" (PDF), Journal of Chinese Studies, 52: 269–290. (review of Nivison (2009))
External links
- Bamboo Annals at the Chinese Text Project.