Sources of Chinese traditionVol. 1: From earliest times to 1600 (2nd ed)

This text is a collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China.

Many of the selections are new to this volume, and more than half the texts from the first edition have been newly translated.The book is organized in chronological order and arranged in four parts, beginning at the dawn of literate Chinese civilization with the Oracle-Bone inscriptions of the late Shang Dynasty (1571-045 BC) and continuing through the end of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1644).