Warring States Project
Publications

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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.

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