Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University; Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar; and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan and Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking through Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Place of Yi Yin in the Shang PantheonZhu Fenghan2. Cao E, the Filial Water Goddess: Gender and Text in the Promotion of a Two-Thousand-Year-Old CultRobin D. S. Yates3. An Examination of Commentaries to Analects 7.14, "Confucius Listened to the Shao Performance in Qi"Wang Yunfei4. Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and Archaeological Research on the Xia DynastyLi Boqian5. Formation of the "Nine Provinces" according to the Tribute Payments Recorded in Oracle-Bone and Bronze InscriptionsShen Jianhua6. The Tsinghua University Yue Gong qi shi Manuscript and Township Administration in the State of Yue during the Spring and Autumn PeriodWang Jinfeng7. Marriage and Social Networks in Zhou China: Reflections on the Rules Governing Female Names in Bronze InscriptionsLi Feng8. The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in Warring States and Early Han HistoriographyAndrew Meyer9. Historical Narratives in Early Chinese Classics: The Case of the "Great King Leaving Bin" in Transmitted Texts and the Bamboo Slips of the Zhou xunCui Xiaojiao10. Rebuilding King Wen: Paratext as Intellectual Biography in the Yi Zhou shu PrefacePaul Nicholas Vogt11. Forging a "Meta-tradition": The Distinctive Philosophy of the HuainanziHarold D. RothAfterwordHarold D. RothList of ContributorsIndex

"…offer[s] much valuable information and may be warmly recommended to readers with a serious interest in Early China." — Journal of Chinese History"The variety of sinological fields and research perspectives collected in this volume —historical, archeological, sociopolitical, literary, philological, and philosophical—is unique. In days of high academic and global awareness of China's decisive role in the present and its significance for the future, this volume reminds readers of its past, of how and why it became an important supranational player in the twenty-first century, bringing perspectives on Chinese myth and history that only scholars of early China can contribute." — Galia Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv University

Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University; Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar; and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan and Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking through Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Place of Yi Yin in the Shang PantheonZhu Fenghan2. Cao E, the Filial Water Goddess: Gender and Text in the Promotion of a Two-Thousand-Year-Old CultRobin D. S. Yates3. An Examination of Commentaries to Analects 7.14, "Confucius Listened to the Shao Performance in Qi"Wang Yunfei4. Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and Archaeological Research on the Xia DynastyLi Boqian5. Formation of the "Nine Provinces" according to the Tribute Payments Recorded in Oracle-Bone and Bronze InscriptionsShen Jianhua6. The Tsinghua University Yue Gong qi shi Manuscript and Township Administration in the State of Yue during the Spring and Autumn PeriodWang Jinfeng7. Marriage and Social Networks in Zhou China: Reflections on the Rules Governing Female Names in Bronze InscriptionsLi Feng8. The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in Warring States and Early Han HistoriographyAndrew Meyer9. Historical Narratives in Early Chinese Classics: The Case of the "Great King Leaving Bin" in Transmitted Texts and the Bamboo Slips of the Zhou xunCui Xiaojiao10. Rebuilding King Wen: Paratext as Intellectual Biography in the Yi Zhou shu PrefacePaul Nicholas Vogt11. Forging a "Meta-tradition": The Distinctive Philosophy of the HuainanziHarold D. RothAfterwordHarold D. RothList of ContributorsIndex

"…offer[s] much valuable information and may be warmly recommended to readers with a serious interest in Early China." — Journal of Chinese History"The variety of sinological fields and research perspectives collected in this volume —historical, archeological, sociopolitical, literary, philological, and philosophical—is unique. In days of high academic and global awareness of China's decisive role in the present and its significance for the future, this volume reminds readers of its past, of how and why it became an important supranational player in the twenty-first century, bringing perspectives on Chinese myth and history that only scholars of early China can contribute." — Galia Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv University

Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University; Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar; and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan and Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking through Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Place of Yi Yin in the Shang PantheonZhu Fenghan2. Cao E, the Filial Water Goddess: Gender and Text in the Promotion of a Two-Thousand-Year-Old CultRobin D. S. Yates3. An Examination of Commentaries to Analects 7.14, "Confucius Listened to the Shao Performance in Qi"Wang Yunfei4. Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and Archaeological Research on the Xia DynastyLi Boqian5. Formation of the "Nine Provinces" according to the Tribute Payments Recorded in Oracle-Bone and Bronze InscriptionsShen Jianhua6. The Tsinghua University Yue Gong qi shi Manuscript and Township Administration in the State of Yue during the Spring and Autumn PeriodWang Jinfeng7. Marriage and Social Networks in Zhou China: Reflections on the Rules Governing Female Names in Bronze InscriptionsLi Feng8. The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in Warring States and Early Han HistoriographyAndrew Meyer9. Historical Narratives in Early Chinese Classics: The Case of the "Great King Leaving Bin" in Transmitted Texts and the Bamboo Slips of the Zhou xunCui Xiaojiao10. Rebuilding King Wen: Paratext as Intellectual Biography in the Yi Zhou shu PrefacePaul Nicholas Vogt11. Forging a "Meta-tradition": The Distinctive Philosophy of the HuainanziHarold D. RothAfterwordHarold D. RothList of ContributorsIndex

"…offer[s] much valuable information and may be warmly recommended to readers with a serious interest in Early China." — Journal of Chinese History"The variety of sinological fields and research perspectives collected in this volume —historical, archeological, sociopolitical, literary, philological, and philosophical—is unique. In days of high academic and global awareness of China's decisive role in the present and its significance for the future, this volume reminds readers of its past, of how and why it became an important supranational player in the twenty-first century, bringing perspectives on Chinese myth and history that only scholars of early China can contribute." — Galia Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv University