The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province): Transcription and Reproductions

by Ling Li

This book is the second in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts. Looted in 1942 from the Warring States-period Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, the manuscripts date to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BCE and are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. The monograph represents the culmination of almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. Volume One addresses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9882370985
• ISBN13: 9789882370982
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 332 Pages