Warring States Project
Results

This section contains some useful interim findings: wordcounts, indexes, and information about the languages of the period. These tools are not yet available in print, and as displayed here are copyright by their authors. To cite them in proper form; see the Citation Conventions page in our Reference section.

Other pages gradually build up the Project's view of the period: dates of individual texts or events, interrelations between two or more texts, fixing them relatively within the larger chronology, developmental sequences implied by the system of dates, and tending to confirm the plausibility of that system, and the implications of all these details for the general history of the period, including its periodization.

Text, Polity, and Language

• Texts
  • Chun/Chyou and Dzwo Jwan Wordcounts (Eric Henry)
  • Shr Citations in Warring States Texts (Taeko Brooks)
• The Warring States
  • Chi
  • Jin
  • Chu
  • Ywe
• Languages
• Chu
• Lu
• Sounds of the Times: Evidences for Actual Pronunciation
• Doublets Suggesting Substrate Languages
• Indic Loan Words

Chronology and History

• Dates
  • The Death of Confucius
• Dating Controversies
• Intertextual Dialogues: Skirmishes in the War of Ideas
  • Analects and Gwandz on the People
  • Mwodz and Analects on the Three-Year Mourning
  • Analects and Jwangdz on Public Duty
• Developments
  • Myth
• Periodization
  • The Warring States: A Working Conclusion

We now take up several reference items, starting with your own reference shelf:

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