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Warring States Papers This journal makes available, in a conveniently citable form, material from the Warring States Project's distributed Notes and Queries, its Conferences, and its E-mail dialogue, as well as other leading edge research from scholars around the world. These results were obtained by methods of text study which have long been known, and are characteristic of all the humanistic sciences, but applying them to early Chinese material has created something of a revolution in Sinology. New contributions further developing this methodologically fresh beginning are also welcome. To encourage them, the journal emphasizes short articles rather than monograph-length disquisitions. To emphasize the universality of its methods, besides its primary focus on classical China, the journal also takes account of classical Indian and Greek subjects, with a special emphasis on the New Testament and the first Christian century. In applying these standard philological methods to major unsolved problems in these early literate traditions, the journal seeks to (a) establish the nature and interrelations of the texts, (b) date the texts or their constituent layers, and finally (c) read the history of the period - military as well as intellectual - from that newly available source material. These fundamental preliminaries have tended to be overlooked in the scholarship of the last century, and the Project's revolution has consisted in large part of not overlooking them. Once they have been carefully followed through, the history of each period is not only available for study as such, it is also available for comparison with similar developments both ancient and modern. The journal embodies selected results of these investigations. It is essential for individuals doing work in these fields, and for libraries at active research institutions. The first volume (cover date 2010) was delayed for technical reasons, and appeared in May 2012. It is hoped that subsequent volumes will follow at roughly half-year intervals until the cover date and the calendar date coincide, and appear annually thereafter. Orders may be placed through our distributor, or libraries may order through their jobber. Next-volume notification is available. Sample papers from the current and some future volumes are available at this site. A year from the date of its appearance in print, the full contents of each volume will be available in permanent free-access form at the University's ScholarWorks archive. Those interested in submitting articles should first consult the Guidelines for Authors, at this site, and then contact the Editors. Some submitted articles have already been scheduled for future publication.
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