Warring States Project
Publications

The Project's own publications together aim to present Ancient China in Context, the major classical works on their own terms, as they happened, and as they were shaped by what was happening in the world around them. They are being published as a series, under that rubric. Together, as numerous scholarly Comments have attested, they constitute a revolution in how the formative period of China will be understood in years to come, both by scholars and by the general public.

We see several of the major texts as having been formed by an accretion process. A stunning archaeological confirmation of that view of one of those texts, the Dau/Dv Jing, surfaced in 1998, when the texts found at the Gwodyen site were finally released to the scholarly world. Our accretional view of that text had been introduced in a lecture of 1990, and published in a survey article of 1994.

Books in the Ancient China in Context series fall into four subgroups, each with its own name. All are listed below, along with previous books and articles published under other auspices. Note that some titles are presently available on-line, in whole or in part.

• Books
  • The New Chinese Classics
    • The Original Analects (Columbia 1998)
      • On-line Supplement (2001-)
    • The Emergence of China (est 2009)
  • Introducing China
    • Founding an Empire (est 2010)
    • Jwangdz (est 2009)
    • Mencius (est 2012)
  • Warring States Papers (the Project's journal)
• Monographs
• Warring States Monographs
  • Vocabularies in Chinese (est 2008)
  • Introduction to Classical Chinese Texts (est 2009)
• Older Monographs
  • Future Prospects of Pre-Han Text Studies (1994)
  • Life and Mentorship of Confucius (1996)
  • Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts (1999)
• Articles and Chapters
• Intellectual Dynamics of the Warring States Period (1997)
• Citizenship in Warring States China (1998)
• The Nature and Context of the Mencius (2002)
• Word Philology and Text Philology in Analects 9:1 (2002)
• Heaven, Li, and the Formation of the Zuozhuan (2005)

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