Oracle Bone Script Explanations with Illustrations (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

Author: Tang Yize
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book vividly and engagingly showcases the human forms, clothing and adornment, dietary habits, architectural dwellings, transportation, procreation, fishing and gathering, farming and hunting, illnesses and deaths, as well as sacrificial divination of ancient life in oracle bone script. It is a humorous yet scholarly history of the Shang Dynasty society, combining textual interpretation with the historical and cultural, as well as all aspects of social life during the Shang period.