The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals

This book is the result of discoveries made by Nivison beginning in 1979. It uses critically (without superseding) his monographs from 1983 through 2002, combined with his discoveries through 2009. Its main thrust is to show that the methods and results of the PRC Three Dynasties Project are invalid, and that recovering chronology before 841 BCE can be solved only by using the supposedly spurious Jinben Zhushu Jinian ( Modern Text Bamboo Annals), combined with the hypothesis that reign...
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This book is the result of discoveries made by Nivison beginning in 1979. It uses critically (without superseding) his monographs from 1983 through 2002, combined with his discoveries through 2009. Its main thrust is to show that the methods and results of the PRC Three Dynasties Project are invalid, and that recovering chronology before 841 BCE can be solved only by using the supposedly spurious Jinben Zhushu Jinian ( Modern Text Bamboo Annals), combined with the hypothesis that reign lengths of record were normally the years after completion of mourning for the preceding king."