Abstract

Since at least the 4th c. A.D., students of Han intellectual history have assumed the existence in Han of more than ten' complete chapters of the Documents classic (Shang shu f&&) written in pre-Han script forms (the so-called ku-wen t@; or Archaic Script), in addition to the standard 29 p'ien ffi transmitted from the Ch'in dynasty (221 B.C.-208 B.C.) by Master Fu Sheng XRb. (The latter set of texts is usually identified, somewhat anachronistically, as the chin wen +@; or Modern Script Documents).l Given the fundamental importance of the Documents classic to Chinese state-sponsored ideology in Han, it is astonishing how few facts

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