Social Sciences
8 years ago

New study reveals major errors in Western Zhou Dynasty chronicle division.

Shixue yuekan
A Comparative Study on the Chronicle Division of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Bamboo Annals and the Report of the Xia-Shang-Zhou Dynasties Division Project
Zhang Fu-xiang

Paper Summary

The article compares two historical texts about the Western Zhou Dynasty to see if they match up. It finds that one text made a mistake in the dates of two emperors' reigns, which threw off the timeline. By comparing the corrected dates with a different historical record, the researchers concluded that the timeline in one of the texts is mostly wrong.

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