Oracle Bone Script Explanations and Translations

Author: Wang Yuxin
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Are you a beginner in oracle bone script? You may understand all the inscriptions but don’t know their meanings? Yet you have a great interest in oracle bone script—what should you do?! Your confusion is now resolved, as experts led by Mr. Wang Yuxin have compiled this selection, making it easy for those who only understand colloquial Chinese to read. The book includes rubbings, copies, and inscriptions, making it the ideal choice for beginners.
Since the publication of Selected Readings of Oracle Bone Script Masterpieces by the Language and Culture Press in 1989, it has been widely welcomed by readers interested in oracle bone studies. This is because the selected pieces are highly representative, covering important and well-known oracle bones from the ten thousand available, and they correspond the inscriptions on the copies with the respective parts of the bone fragments.
Moreover, the appended "Table of Sources" matches the selected piece numbers with their original cataloging numbers in works like The Complete Oracle Bone Script Collection. This provides convenience for researchers well-versed in oracle bone studies, allowing them to use the book as a guide to explore further content in The Complete Oracle Bone Script Collection. This is possible because The Complete Collection is organized by period and classification, with as many inscriptions as possible grouped together. Thus, readers can easily extrapolate and find related content.