Jia gu nian biao 甲骨年表 [Chronological Table of Oracle-Bone Studies].
65 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu guan 商務印書館, 1937.
First edition of this overview of events and publications in the field of oracle-bone studies. The oracle-bone inscriptions are divinatory inscriptions on animal scapulae and turtle plastrons. “Scapulimancy began to emerge in China during the late Yangshao 仰韶 period…The application of northern scapulimancy to the divine turtle shell of the south and east reached its highest point several centuries later during the golden age of oracle-bone divination at Anyang, a period of roughly two centuries that starts in the reign of Wu... More