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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
02 May 2004
Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts
Society for the Study of Early China, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Self-description:
"This is the full and most updated version [last update: Jan 2000 - HL]
of [...] database [by Enno Giele, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan - ed.] that in an abbreviated format accompanies [...his] review article
'Early Chinese Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New
Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of
Inscriptions and Manuscripts'; Early China 23-24 (1998-99), 247-337. It
tries to assemble basic information on all known manuscripts - fully
published or not - written in Chinese on bamboo, wood, and silk from the
pre-imperial to the early imperial period, i.e. roughly from the -3rd to the
3rd c. However, a few other manuscripts written on or inscriptions engraved
in stone, bone, or paper from adjacent periods have also been included."
Supplied note:
"An annotated bibliographic database in two parts.
The first part,'Sites', is a list of 158 sites where manuscript
materials have been found. Entries in this part contain the following
information: Serial Number; Site; Report; Discovery date; Period;
Whereabouts; Distribution; Total pieces; Total graphs. The second part,
'Manuscripts', give more details about the 287 objects themselves:
Serial Number; Site contents; Material; Pieces; Size; Graphs; Script;
Reproductions/Transcriptions; Remarks. - ma."
URL http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic/Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
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