Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University, Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar, and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan and Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking through Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Owl in Oracle-Bone Inscriptions and on Early Ritual Bronzes
Wang Tao
2. A Study of the Décor on a Shang Dynasty Architectural Object from the Site of Xiaoshuangqiao in Zhengzhou
Han Ding
3. Respecting Heaven and Sacrificing to the Ancestors: Social Order and Ritual Reflected in Early Western Zhou Bronze Drinking Vessel Sets
Lu Liancheng
4. The Cheng Wang Fangding
Colin Mackenzie
5. The Western Zhou Court and Hedong Salt Lake: Revelations from the Newly Excavated Ba Bo (Elder Ba) Bronze Vessels
Han Wei
6. Changing Ideas about De, the Lineage, and the Individual in Fifth- and Fourth-Century BCE China as Reflected in the Wenxian Covenant Texts
Crispin Williams
7. The Editing and Publication of Ancient Books Written on Bamboo and Silk
Li Ling
8. The Philological Value of the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts
Zhao Pingan and Wang Tingbin
9. A Brief Look at the Shanghai Museum Manuscript "The State of Lu Suffered a Great Drought"
Scott Cool
10. An Introduction and Preliminary Translation of the Jiaonü (Instructions for Daughters), a Qin Bamboo Text
Anne Behnke Kinney
11. The Shape of the Text: Gu Prisms and Han Primers
Christopher J. Foster
12. Sanjiaowei M1: Hand Tools from the Grave of a Hobbyist Woodworker?
Charles Sanft
Afterword. Wandering Mt. Song, Chatting in Friendship: Exploring Mt. Song in Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
Qi Wenxin
List of Contributors
Index