This book is the result of discoveries made by Nivison beginning in
1979. It uses critically (without superseding) his monographs from
1983 through 2002, combined with his discoveries through 2009. Its
main thrust is to show that the methods and results of the PRC
"Three Dynasties Project" are invalid, and that recovering
chronology before 841 BCE can be solved only by using the
supposedly spurious Jinben Zhushu Jinian ("Modern Text" Bamboo
Annals), combined with the hypothesis that reign lengths of record
were normally the years after completion of mourning for the
preceding king. Part One presents resulting exact dates from the
beginning of Xia, confirmed by discoveries in astronomy by D. W.
Pankenier and Kevin Pang. Part Two criticizes the Three Dynasties
Project and argues for the post-mourning hypothesis and the high
antiquity of the three-years mourning institution. In Part Three,
applying a discovery by E. L. Shaughnessy, the author reconstructs
the first 303 bamboo strips of the original Bamboo Annals text
(perhaps five-sevenths of the whole). In so doing he shows that the
entire chronology in the Zhushu jinian is the product of Warring
States manipulation of the true chronology; therefore any attempt
to recover accurate dates must begin by analyzing the "Modern Text"
Zhushu jinian - which the Project ignored completely. Appendices
present more data and analysis, notably (Appendix 4) pinpointing
the source of the Project's errors in dating late Shang events.
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