Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 5: EARLY SOCIETIES IN EAST ASIA

Primary Source Links


Oracle Bone with Translation
Shang Dynasty oracle bone image and translation.
( http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/translation.html )
W. A. P. Martin: The Worship of Ancestors, 1900
Modern account of Chinese ancestor worship
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900ancestors.html )
Sunzi's Art of War: Laying Plans
Sunzi's famous introduction to his classic work on strategy.
( http://www.4literature.net/Historical_Document/Sun_Tzu_The_Art_of_War/ )
The Book of Songs: Guan! Guan! Cry the Fishhawks
Story of courtship from the Shijing (the Book of Songs).
( http://www.chinavista.com/experience/shijing/guanju.html )
The Five Classics
Description of the Five Classics of pre-Confucian China.
( http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCCHINA/ANCCHINA.HTM )
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