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