Reflections of Early China: Decor, Pictographs and Pictorial Inscriptions Book

	Illustrations
	Tables and Appendixes
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Exordium: Scope and Objectives	1
App. E.1	Radiocarbon Dates, Regional Scopes, and Developmental Sequences of Prehistoric Cultures	6
App. E.2	Archaeological and Historical Chronology of Ancient China	8
Pt. I	Subjects in Ten Centuries of Scholarship
Ch. 1	Overview of Pictographic Studies	11
Ch. 2	Review of Bronze Decor Studies	30
Pt. II	Sources, Formation, and Development of Bronze Decor, Pictographs, and Pictorial Inscriptions
Ch. 3	Sources in the Prehistoric Era	47
App. 3.1	Varieties of Liuwan Pottery Marks in Each Tomb	83
Ch. 4	Shang and Zhou Bronze Pictographs	84
Pt. III	A Medium between Bronze Inscription and Decor
Ch. 5	Pictorial Inscription	105
App. 5.1	Dragon Pictorial Inscriptions	119
App. 5.2	Creature Pictorial Inscriptions	126
Pt. IV	Meanings and Functions of Bronze Pictographs and Decor
Ch. 6	Contexts and Assignments of Bronze Pictographs	135
App. 6.1	Intact Shang and Western Zhou Tombs	155
App. 6.2	Shang and Western Zhou Cemeteries	158
App. 6.3	Pictographs and Genealogy on Bronzes from Zhuangbai Pit No. 1	168
App. 6.4	Distribution of Individual Pictographs	169
Ch. 7	Connotation and Mission of Bronze Decor	172
App. 7.1	Alternative Translations of Key Zhouyuan Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the King Wen Period	206
	Conclusion: A Reconsideration of Some Aspects of Early China	207
	Notes	213
	Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters	241
	Bibliography	255
	Index	321