Abstract
Having demonstrated in a previous article entitled “On the Authenticity of theBamboo Annals” that the “Current”Bamboo Annalscan be a surprisingly reliable source for the history of early China and particularly for the Western Zhou period, in this article the author again examines a brief series of entries from this text, in this case dealing with the death of King Wen and the succession of King Wu. The analysis is divided into three sections, historical, philological, and chronological, all of which show that although this section of the “Current”Bamboo Annalshas been revised, apparently just after the text's exhumation in the late-third century, and is no longer accurateper se, it is still possible to use it to reconstruct the original tomb text, which can be shown to be historically reliable. In addition to demonstrating once again the reliability of theBamboo Annals, the discussion also verifies that the date of the Zhou conquest of Shang was 1045 B.C.
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