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. 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.
The resulting picture of the Chinese classical period enhances the value of classical China for comparative history, and sharpens its relevance to contemporary situations.
- THE PROJECT: Mission and Organization (the Site Tour begins on this page)
- METHODOLOGY: History and How to Find It
- PHILOLOGY: Making the Sources Safe for History
- SINOLOGY: Our Corner of the Great Tradition
- CONFERENCES
- Lectures by Project Researchers
- COLLABORATIONS
- Concordances (Serguei Zinine's CTexts; the Colegio de Mexico Dzwo Jwan Index)
- Chronology (Universities of Oslo and Heidelberg)
- IN PROGRESS
- Sinica (presentations from current research)
- Alpha Christianity (the earliest Christian belief)
- REFERENCE: Information, Bookshop, and Internet Links
- PUBLICATIONS Past and Future
- JOURNAL: Warring States Papers
- IMPLICATIONS, including Ask WSP, a service to the policy community
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