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Warring States Project
Publications

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Now, in the 21st century, the Project's research has reached the point where results on individual texts cohere into a consistent system, permitting much of the source material to be arranged in chronological order, and thus to be read historically rather than impressionistically - to let the period speak for itself in its own voice. As Comments on our 1998 Analects book already noted, this way of reading produces a revolution in how classical China will be understood in years to come, by scholars and by the general public. Research continues at a number of points, but the Project's main emphasis has now shifted into making this consistent system more widely available. This page gives access to past publications, and to the new publication program.

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The first decade of Project publications included:

Articles and Reviews
- Future Prospects of Pre-Han Text Studies (1994)
- The Nature and Context of the Mencius (2002)
- Heaven, Li, and the Formation of the Zuozhuan (2005)
Monographs
- Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts (1999)
Books
- The Original Analects (Columbia 1998)
  - Supplement to The Original Analects)

Later Project publications consist of two series: (1) The New Chinese Classics: scholarly monographs giving detailed conclusions, and the reasons for them, for a single major text (such as the Shr Ji), or a cluster of related texts (such as the pre-Han military or meditation texts); and (2) Ancient China in Context: wide-access volumes presenting single texts in translation, or an overview of the history and thought of the classical period. Each series offers to its intended readership a rounded, yet accessible, introduction to some of the textual monuments of the classical period.