• DOI:10.1353/asi.2002.0006
Corpus ID: 67818363

Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History

@article{Lee2002BuildingTC,
  title={Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History},
  author={Y. Lee},
  journal={Asian Perspectives},
  year={2002},
  volume={41},
  pages={15 - 42}
}

Y. Lee

Published 2002

History

Asian Perspectives

The generally accepted chronology of Chinese history begins in 841 B.C., seventy years before the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In Shiji, Sima Qian (c. 145–89 B.C.) compiled a chronological table of twelve contemporary states starting with 841 B.C. Over the past two thousand years, scholars have tried to extend the dates farther back, but without agreement. The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project was recently commissioned by the Chinese Government to systematically reconstruct a reliable… CONTINUE READING

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