Warring States Project

The Warring States Project is a center and international contact point for research on China's classical period (the 05th through 03rd centuries), the turbulent era which ended in 0221 with the military unification of the Chinese states. The Project's approach is based on the philological researches of Bruce and Taeko Brooks. Their methods are wholly general, and have been successfully applied to Greek and Sanskrit as well as Chinese texts; in these and other languages, they solve some long-standing philological problems in a consistent way. The redated Chinese texts yield a historically plausible account of China's formative centuries. They reveal the "Hundred Schools" dialogue actually taking place, and show, in greater detail than was previously available, the intellectual development leading up to the Chinese Empire.

These results make it necessary to reconsider traditional ideas about the Chinese classical period. That reconsideration enhances the value of classical China for comparative history, and sharpens its relevance to contemporary situations.

WHO WE ARE

• THE PROJECT: Mission and Organization
  • An Introduction to Project Text Chronology
• METHODOLOGY: History and How to Find It
  • Outline of Procedure
  • Philology: Making the Sources Safe for History
  • Stylistics: The Inward Affinities of the Sources
  • Comparative History
• SINOLOGY: Our Corner of the Great Tradition
  • The Junior Sinologues: A Historical Portfolio

WORK IN PROGRESS

• CONFERENCES
  • Lectures by Project Researchers
  • E-Mail: The Ongoing Virtual Conference
• RESULTS: Select Data and Working Conclusions
  • Concordance to the Dzwo Jwan (Colegio de Mexico)
  • Concordances to the Chun/Chyou and Dzwo Jwan (Sergei Zinin; in progress)
  • Chronology (Universities of Oslo and Heidelberg)
  • Biblica (an international discussion of New Testament philology)
• REFERENCE
• Internet Links
• Warring States Bookshop

WORK COMPLETED

• PUBLICATIONS Past and Future
  • Journal
• REVIEWS
• IMPLICATIONS for the Present World
  • Ask WSP: A Service to the Policy Community

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