Ancient China in Context
Warring States Papers
These annual volumes, regarded by the Project as a journal but marketed as a series of books (each has its own ISBN number), bring together selections from research notes previously circulated within the Warring States Working Group, from papers presented at WSWG Conferences, and from new work by Project principals and by other scholars who find the Project's solutions to the text problems generally convincing and fruitful, and who wish to join in refining and extending that large picture.
Considered as a journal (and it will also have an ISSN number), the Warring States Papers series will be the first scholarly journal to be permanently associated with the Project's host institution, the University of Massachusetts.
The journal is described in detail, author and librarian information are provided, and volume contents will eventually be archived in free-access form, at a separate section of this site. See:
where some specimen papers from Volume 1 are already on display.
Specific points dealt with in the journal relieve the burden of explanation which would otherwise be faced by the books in our New Chinese Classics series. The journal is limited to short or medium articles (typically from 4 to 14 pages), and thus fills a gap in the scholarly literature: most Sinological journals at present print articles of from 20 to 50 pages. In the same spirit of complementation, functions already well served in the field (such as the literature summaries in Early China, or the reviews in China Review International) will not be duplicated in Warring States Papers. Longer research results can be accommodated in our separate monograph series, Studies and Documents.
It is hoped to release Volume 1 of Warring States Papers late in 2007.
17 May 2007 / Contact The Project / Exit to Publications Page
