1st Edition
Oracle Bone Inscriptions A New Exploration of the Three-Thousand-Year-Old Chinese Writing System
By Tingzhu Chen
Copyright 2026
272 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book presents a systematic re-examination of the Oracle Bone Inscription writing system by integrating up-dated archaeological discoveries and scholarly advances, with the aim of illuminating new aspects of the early evolution of Chinese characters. Building on this foundation, the study identifies variant character groups and tackles fundamental questions concerning the total reservoir of... Read more
1 The Study on Variants in Oracle Bone Inscriptions 2 Structural Analysis of Oracle Bone Inscriptions 3 Component Analysis of Oracle Bone Inscriptions 4 Research on the Character Frequency in Oracle Bone Inscription
Biography
Tingzhu Chen is a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is a leading expert in Oracle Bone Inscriptions (OBI) studies and has published numerous articles in this area. She currently directs the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC) project, "Development of an Oracle Bone Inscriptions Dataset for Recognition Studies" (Grant No. 24Z300404220).
