---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 02 May 2004, by Hanno Lecher New in IGCS - Archaeology (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/archaeology/): Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts Ed./Corp.: Enno Giele, Society for the Study of Early China, Univ. of Chicago, USA. URL.: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/ Language: English. Self description: This is the full and most updated version [last update: Jan 2000 - HL] of my database that in an abbreviated format accompanies my review article "Early Chinese Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts", Early China 23-24 (1998-99), 247-337. It tries to assemble basic information on all known manuscripts - fully published or not - written in Chinese on bamboo, wood, and silk from the pre-imperial to the early imperial period, i.e. roughly from the -3rd to the 3rd c. However, a few other manuscripts written on or inscriptions engraved in stone, bone, or paper from adjacent periods have also been included. Description: An annotated bibliographic database in two parts. The first part, "Sites", is a list of sites where manuscript materials have been found. Entries in this part contain the following information: Serial Number; Site; Report; Discovery date; Period; Whereabouts; Distribution; Total pieces; Total graphs. The second part, "Manuscripts", give more details about the objects themselves: Serial Number; Contents; Material; Pieces; Size; Graphs; Script; Reproductions/Transcriptions; Remarks. Resource suggested by Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg University, Germany. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno E. Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html