Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-16T12:16:02.923Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Recent Finds near An-yang

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

W. Perceval Yetts
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Two years ago an attempt was made in these pages to give a general survey of archæological events since 1899 at An-yang, in the north of Ho-nan province. Though excavation was still in progress, and investigation of results far from ended, the great interest taken by Western students called for an interim statement. This was specially needed because most of the literature of the subject is written in Chinese. Besides the clandestine activities of treasureseekers and the earlier, less organized digging by the peasants, scientific exploration had been carried out since 1928 by the National Research Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, which had published three parts of Preliminary Reports of Excavations at Anyang under the editorship of Dr. Li Chi . The main purpose of the present article is to take account of part iv, which appeared in 1933 after my former article was written, and includes the results of excavation during 1931 and 1932.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , July 1935 , pp. 467 - 474
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 467 note 1 The article, entitled The Shang- Yin Dynasty and the An-yang Finds, appeared in JRAS. 1933, pp. 657–785. The date 1161 b.c. in the seventh line on p. 684 should be corrected to 1171 b.c.

page 467 note 2 , written in Chinese and published in Pei-p'ing by the Academia Sinica: parts i and ii, 1929; part iii, 1931; the series being referred to here as PREA.

page 467 note 3 Reviewed by Eberhard, W. in Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, 1933, 208–213Google Scholar.

page 468 note 1 Hereafter referred to as TYP. i.

page 468 note 2 A person of this name is mentioned in the Shu ching and Shih chi as one who delivered to Wu Ting a homily following a portent when the latter was sacrificing to T'ang, founder of the dynasty. A pheasant had alighted upon the handle of a ritual vessel and uttered a cry. v. Legge, , Chinese Classics, iii, 7, 264, 265Google Scholar, and Chavannes, , Mémoires historiques, i, 196, 197Google Scholar. Apart from this tale, nothing is known about him; he is supposed to have been a minister, such an explanation being consistent with the narrative.

page 470 note 1 v. Chavannes, , Les Livres chinois avant l'Invention du Papier, in Jour Asiatique (01–02), 1905, 5–75Google Scholar.

page 470 note 2 The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, etc., i, 14—17.

page 470 note 3 See sketch-map on p. 658 of previous article.

page 471 note 1 v. Tso-pin, Tung in PREA. iv, 705–8Google Scholar.

page 472 note 1 A History of Early Chinese Art, i, 46–50.

page 472 note 2 The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, etc., i, 34–9.

page 472 note 3 Chinese Bronzes in Adversaria Sinica, No. 9 (1911), 293, 294Google Scholar.

page 472 note 4 1 An Examination of Chinese Bronzes in Annual Report of Smithsonian Institution (1914), 587–592.

page 473 note 1 Yeh chung p'ien yü by Chün, Huang (Pei-p'ing, 1935), i, 36–40Google Scholar.

page 473 note 2 e.g. in the Eumorfopoulos Catalogue cited above, i, 34, 35; ii, 5, 7, 40, 41.

page 474 note 1 Bronzes, pp. 41–3, in Burlington Magazine Monograph, Chinese Art, 1925.

page 474 note 2 Issues of 23rd March, 480–2; 20th April, 639–641; and 18th May, 888, 889, pl. iv.