Ancient Chinese Audit History

Author: Liu Yun
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book, through extensive archaeological evidence, takes the closing line of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian·Annals of Xia—"Huaiji is the gathering of accounts"—as its proposition. It traces back from the Western Han Dynasty, the era when Records of the Grand Historian was written, to the remote antiquity. Following the of different dynasties—Spring and Autumn strategies, Western Zhou, Shang Dynasty, and the Xia Dynasty of Yu—the book uses archaeological artifacts as evidence and relies on historical records, supplemented by the six methods of character formation in Chinese writing, to propose that China had already developed industry as early as the time of Yu the Great.