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
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: CH'EN Chieh 立命館大学, 文学部, 非常勤講師 (10469182)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• 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.

Research Products

• [Presentation] 「貝塚茂樹的甲骨學研究」 (2017)
  • Author(s): 陳 捷
  • Organizer: 「出土文獻的世界：第六屆出土文獻青年學者論壇」
  • Place of Presentation: 北京（中国）
  • Year and Date: 2017-08-08
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 「孔子之戰爭觀管窺」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 陳 捷
  • Organizer: 「先秦諸子與戰爭倫理」學術會議
  • Place of Presentation: 香港浸會大學（中国・香港）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-12
  • Invited
• [Book] 『先秦諸子與戰爭倫理』 (2016)
  • Author(s): 陳 捷、羅秉祥（編集長）、李桂生、田旭東、陳強立、余治平、白トウ東、朱光磊、黄蕉風、張 穎、詹 康、湯浅邦弘、竹田健二
  • Total Pages: 399
  • Publisher: 中華書局
• [Book] 漢簡語彙 中国古代木簡辞典 (2015)
  • Author(s): 京都大学人文科学研究所簡牘研究班（分担執筆者 陳 捷）
  • Total Pages: 608
  • Publisher: 岩波書店