The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province): Volume One: Discovery and Transmission

by Li Ling

The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan) are the only pre-imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to date. Dating to the turn from the fourth to the third centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning basic cosmological concepts in a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9882370977
• ISBN13: 9789882370975
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 11.2"