Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-Huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation Book

	Figures, Maps, and Tables
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Annotated translation
	The inscription on Mt. I	10
	The inscription on Mt. T'ai	17
	The inscription on Mt. Lang-yeh	25
	The inscription on Mt. Chih-fu	35
	The inscription on the eastern vista of Mt. Chih-fu	38
	The inscription at the gate of Chieh-shih	41
	The inscription on Mt. K'uai-chi	44
3	The stele inscriptions in Ch'in Shih-huang's ritual system
3.1	The notion of the stone inscription	50
3.2	The bronze and chime-stone inscriptions of the pre-imperial Ch'in ancestral temple	59
3.3	The tour of inspection and the sacrifices to cosmic spirits	106
4	A structural analysis of the inscriptions
4.1	The ritual text as a textual series	119
4.2	The sequential topical structure	126
4.3	The phenomenon of self-reference	140
4.4	The force of redundancy and restriction: manifestations of ritual language	148
5	Towards a historical interpretation of the inscriptions
5.1	Between Ch'in history and Han historiography	154
5.2	The continuity of traditional thought and ritual practice	164
5.3	Scholarship and authority in the early empire	183
	Bibliography	197
	Index	215