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S (English and Chinese) ix ARTICLES Richard Pearson, Chinese Neolithic Burial Patterns: Problems of Method and Interprétation 1 Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, The Bo Capital and Questions Concerning Xia and Early Shang 46 Wu Hung, From Temple to Tomb: Ancient Chinese Art and Religion in Transition 78 Barry B. Blakeley, In Search of Danyang. I: Historical Geography and Archaeological Sites 116 Philip J. Ivanhoe, A Question of Faith: A New Interprétation of Mencius 2B.13 153 A. F. P. Hulsewé, The Wide Scope of Tao 3& , "Theft," in Ch'in-Han Law 166 Esther Jacobson, Beyond the Frontier: A Reconsidérâtion of Cultural Interchange Between China and the Early Nomads 201 B00K REVIEWS Stan Mickel, Jean A. Lefeuvre, Collections of Oracular Inscriptions in France 241 John S. Major, W. Allyn Rickett, Guanzi. Political, Economie, and Philosophical Essays from Early China: A Study and Translation. Volume I 243 RESEARCH NOTES ANO COMMUNICATIONS John D. La Plante, Ancient Chinese Ritual Vessels: Some Observations on Technology and Style 247 Vladimir Liscâk, Excavations at the Yongcheng Site, 1959-1986 274 Michael Loewe, The Han Dynasty Tomb at Ta-pao-t'ai 288 TRANSLATIONS Shen Zhongchang, A Preliminary Report on the Standing Bronze Figure from Sacrificial Pit Number Two, Sanxingdui, transiated by Robert A. Jones 291 SHIGAKU ZASSHI: Summary of Japanese Scholarship, by Toyoda Hisashi and Inoo Hideyuki, transiated by Igarashi Yoshikuni and David N. Keightley 297 DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS 329 BIBLIOGRAPHY Annual Bibliography 355 Vladimir Liscâk, A Bibliography of Books and Articles in Russian on the Archaeology and History of Early China Published in 1985-1987 377

S (English and Chinese) ix ARTICLES Herrlee G. Creel, On the Birth of The Birth of China 1 Wang Ningsheng, Yangshao Burial Customs and Social Organization: A Comment on the Theory of Yangshao Matrilineal Society and Its Methodology, translated by David N. Keightley 6 Edward L. Shaughnessy, The "Current" Bamboo Annals and the Date of the Zhou Conquest of Shang 33 Thomas A. Metzger, Some Ancient Roots of Modern Chinese Thought: This-worldliness, Epistemological Optimism, Doctrinality, and the Emergence of Reflexivity in the Eastern Chou 61 J. L. Kroll, Disputation in Ancient Chinese Culture 118 THE EARLY CHINA FORUM Edward L. Shaughnessy, Zhouyuan Oracle-Bone Inscriptions: Entering the Research Stage? A review of XiZhou jiagu tanlun with comments by Wang Yuxin, Li Xueqin, and Fan Yuzhou, and Extra-Lineage Cult in the Shang Dynasty: A Surrejoinder 146 REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS John W. Olsen, The Pleistocene Prehistory of China: Recent Accomplishments, New Directions, and Their Regional Context 195 Derek Herforth, Philological Marginalia on a Grammatical Study of Old Chinese, a review of Aspects of Classical Chinese Syntax by Christoph Harbsmeier 209 Robin D. S. Yates, Some Notes on Ch'in Law: A Review Article of Remnants of Ch'in Law by A. F. P. Hulsewe 243 EARLY CHINA 11-12 (1985-1987) Sucheta Mazumdar, Science and Civilization in China, Vol. 6, Part II: Agriculture by Francesca Bray 276 RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS Sarah Allan, Myth and Meaning in Shang Bronze Motifs 283 Jessica Rawson, Late Western Zhou: A Break in the Shang Bronze Tradition 289 Li Xueqin, Some Problems Concerning Qin and Han Bronzes 296 TRANSLATIONS Qiu Xigui, On the Methods of Studying Ancient Chinese Script, translated by Gilbert L. Mattos 301 SHIGAKU ZASSHI: Summary of Japanese Scholarship, by Emura Haruki and Kamiya Masakazu, translated by Ken Takashima and Vernon Fowler 317 DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS 345 BIBLIOGRAPHY Barry B. Blakeley, Recent Developments in Chu Studies: A Bibliographic and Institutional Overview 371 Annual Bibliography 388 Vladimir Liscak, A Bibliography of Books and Articles in Russian on the Archaeology and History of Ancient China: 1981-1984 406 NEWS OF THE FIELD MEETINGS 420

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