2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Character Culture in Ancient China as Seen in Oracle-Bone Inscriptions: The Role of the Shang Dynasty Historians in Producing the Inscriptions and their Document Management Systems
Project/Area Number |
26370465
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Linguistics
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Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
Principal Investigator |
CH'EN Chieh 立命館大学, 文学部, 非常勤講師 (10469182)
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 甲骨文字 / 卜辞 / 文字文化 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study, “A Comprehensive Table of the Records of the Reassembling of the Shang Dynasty Oracle-Bone Inscriptions,” is a compilation of the results of an investigation into these inscriptions discovered in China in the 13-11th century B.C.E. It includes an analysis of the latest records of the reassembling of approximately 80,000 slices of oracle-bone inscriptions. It also selectively highlights the works of the most representative Shang Dynasty historians - the bearers of the Shang character culture - who produced oracle-bone inscriptions and developed an early document-management system. Overall, the present research offers the latest available information on the Shang Dynasty oracle-bone inscriptions currently available to the scientific community, and provides the most comprehensive compilation and analysis of the previously disconnected research data in the field.
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Free Research Field |
甲骨学、文字学、中国古代史
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