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, in turn, 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. The resulting reconsideration enhances the value of classical China for comparative history, and also sharpens its relevance to contemporary situations.

NEWS BRIEF

Society of Biblical Literature / New England
E Bruce Brooks
The Verily Sayings in Mark
18 April 2008 (Friday 9 AM, Davis Hall 203, Andover Newton Theological School)

WHO WE ARE

• THE PROJECT: Mission and Organization
  • As Introduction to Project Text Chronology
• NEWS Past and Present

HOW WE WORK

• METHODOLOGY: History and How to Find It
  • Outline of Procedure
  • Advice to Students
• COMPARATIVE HISTORY: The Unit of Historical Understanding
• PHILOLOGY: Making the Sources Safe for History
  • Text Typology
• STATISTICS: Making the Sources Intelligible for History
• STYLISTICS: At the Author's Elbow

COLLABORATIVE RESULTS

• CONCORDANCES: in collaboration with the Colegio de Mexico
• CHRONOLOGY: in collaboration with the Universities of Oslo and Heldelberg
• RESULTS: Select Data and Working Conclusions
  • Chu Lexicon

READING AND REFERENCE AIDS

• BOOKSHOP: Easy Access to the Latest Things
• REFERENCE
  • Indexes and Finding Aids
  • Language Guides for English, French, Latin, and Chinese
  • Internet Links
  • Romanization Tables
• SINOLOGY: Our Corner of the Great Tradition

Mystery Sinologist
Changes Every Friday

THE ONGOING DIALOGUE

• E-MAIL
  • Making Contact with Project Research Activity
• Synoptica: Excursions in Early Christianity
• CONFERENCES
  • Travel Advice: How to get to Amherst for Conferences, Classes, or Events
• LECTURES by Project Researchers
• REVIEWS of Other Published Works

SCHOLARLY OUTPUT

• JOURNAL
  • On-line Preprints from Volume 1
• PUBLICATIONS: Past and Future
  • On-line Supplement to The Original Analects (Columbia 1998)
• Classical Chinese Texts: Some Prepublication Results in Detail
• Kautilya: Early Indian Statecraft Recovered
• The Hundred Voices: Selections from the Forthcoming Print Version

OUTREACH

• Classical Chinese Primer: A Demonstration Module
• IMPLICATIONS for the Present World
  • Ask WSP: A Service to the Policy Community

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