Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His publications include The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation (American Oriental Society, 2000) and Text and Ritual in Early China (ed., Univ. of Washington Press, 2005).Dirk Meyer, PhD. (2008) is Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy, and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He publishes on meaning production and the history of thought. His monograph, Philosophy on Bamboo, appeared with Brill in 2012.

• Introduction - Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” - Martin Kern2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu - Kai Vogelsang3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 - Dirk Meyer4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang” 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu - Joachim Gentz5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou - Magnus Ribbing Gren6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 - Dirk Meyer7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches - Yegor Grebnev8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu - Martin Kern9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts - David Schaberg10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited - Yuri Pines11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 - Michael Hunter12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China - Maria Khayutina13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu - Charles Sanft14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong”禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 - Robin McNealIndex

Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His publications include The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation (American Oriental Society, 2000) and Text and Ritual in Early China (ed., Univ. of Washington Press, 2005).Dirk Meyer, PhD. (2008) is Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy, and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He publishes on meaning production and the history of thought. His monograph, Philosophy on Bamboo, appeared with Brill in 2012.

• Introduction - Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” - Martin Kern2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu - Kai Vogelsang3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 - Dirk Meyer4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang” 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu - Joachim Gentz5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou - Magnus Ribbing Gren6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 - Dirk Meyer7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches - Yegor Grebnev8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu - Martin Kern9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts - David Schaberg10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited - Yuri Pines11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 - Michael Hunter12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China - Maria Khayutina13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu - Charles Sanft14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong”禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 - Robin McNealIndex

Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His publications include The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation (American Oriental Society, 2000) and Text and Ritual in Early China (ed., Univ. of Washington Press, 2005).Dirk Meyer, PhD. (2008) is Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy, and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He publishes on meaning production and the history of thought. His monograph, Philosophy on Bamboo, appeared with Brill in 2012.

• Introduction - Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” - Martin Kern2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu - Kai Vogelsang3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 - Dirk Meyer4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang” 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu - Joachim Gentz5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou - Magnus Ribbing Gren6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 - Dirk Meyer7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches - Yegor Grebnev8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu - Martin Kern9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts - David Schaberg10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited - Yuri Pines11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 - Michael Hunter12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China - Maria Khayutina13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu - Charles Sanft14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong”禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 - Robin McNealIndex