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15. Statistical Analysis of Shang Meteorology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2015

Chou Hung-Hsiang ,
Shen Jianhua  and
Lisa Heyes
Chou Hung-Hsiang
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Shen Jianhua
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa Heyes
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

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The authors see their paper as an attempt to analyze Shang meteorology through statistics, but explicitly not to reconstruct Shang weather. It is essentially an amplified study of the oracle-bone record along the lines pioneered by Wittfogel in his “Meteorological Records from the Divination Inscriptions of Shang” (1940), which has been followed up by contributions from Chinese scholars, notably Hu Houxuan. Compiling the data into a graph, the authors, whose research is still preliminary, conclude that during Shang times, there was more rainfall, that it took place during every month of the year, and that the weather was warmer.

Type
Session V: Nature and Cosmology
Information
Early China , Volume 9 , supplement S1: International Conference on Shang Civilization: Abstracts of the Papers Presented and a Summary of the Discussions , 1986 , pp. 34 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Study of Early China 1986