David Keightley
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David Keightley's Degrees
- PhD Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Noel Keightley was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Chinese Bronze Age. He was best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script. His work changed the way that many Sinologists viewed Shang dynasty history.
David Keightley's Published Works
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- Early Chinese texts : a bibliographical guide (1994) (176)
- Sources of Shang History: The Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China (1981) (172)
- The Religious Commitment: Shang Theology and the Genesis of Chinese Political Culture (1978) (137)
- The Shang: China’s First Historical Dynasty (1999) (136)
- The Origins of Chinese civilization (1984) (128)
- The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China, CA. 1200-1045 B.C. (2000) (115)
- The Shang State as Seen in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions (1979) (80)
- Early Chinese civilization : anthropological perspectives (1976) (65)
- Shang Divination and Metaphysics (1988) (48)
- Art, Ancestors, and the Origins of Writing in China (1996) (41)
- Marks and Labels: Early Writing in Neolithic and Shang China (2008) (38)
- The Bamboo Annals and Shang-Chou Chronology (1978) (37)
- Shamanism, death, and the ancestors : Religious mediation in neolithic and Shang China (CA. 5000-1000 B.C.) (1998) (30)
- Shang China is Coming of Age—A Review Article (1982) (27)
- Archaeology and Mentality: The Making of China (1987) (27)
- Religion and the Rise of Urbanism@@@The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City (1973) (25)
- At the Beginning: the Status of Women in Neolithic and Shang China* (1999) (23)
- Sources of Shang History (1980) (21)
- Where Have All the Swords Gone? Reflections on the Unification of China (1976) (20)
- Working for His Majesty : research notes on labor mobilization in late Shang China (ca. 1200-1045 B.C.), as seen in the oracle-bone inscriptions, with particular attention to handicraft industries, agriculture, warfare, hunting, construction, and the Shang's legacies (2012) (18)
- Akatsuka Kiyoshi and The Culture of Early China: A Study in Historical Method (1982) (10)
- A Measure of Man in Early China: In Search of the Neolithic Inch (1995) (9)
- On the Misuse of Ancient Chinese Inscriptions: An Astronomical Fantasy (1977) (8)
- Ping-Ti Ho and the Origins of Chinese Civilization (1977) (5)
- Sources of Shang History: Two Major Oracle-Bone Collections Published in the People's Republic of ChinaChia-ku-wen ho-chi 甲骨文合集Shang Chou chia-ku-wen tsung-chi 商周甲骨文總集Hsiao-t'un nan-ti chia-ku 小屯南地甲骨Chia-ku-wen ho-chi Shang Chou chia-ku-wen tsung-chi Hsiao-t'un nan-ti chia-ku (1990) (5)
- “SEEING” LIKE A SAGE: THREE TAKES ON IDENTITY AND PERCEPTION IN EARLY CHINA (2008) (4)
- Neolithic and Shang Periods (1995) (3)
- Oracle-Bone Collections In Great Britain: A Review Article (1989) (3)
- Fa-kuo so-ts'ang chia-ku lu 法國所葬甲骨錄; Collections d'inscriptions oraculaires en France; Collections of Oracular Inscriptions in France@@@Fa-kuo so-ts'ang chia-ku lu (Fa guo suo zang jiagu lu); Collections d'inscriptions oraculaires en France; Collections of Oracular Inscriptions in France (1989) (3)
- Main Trends in American Studies of Chinese History: Neolithic to Imperial Times (1986) (3)
- These Bones Shall Rise Again: Selected Writings on Early China (2014) (3)
- “Benefit of Water”: The Approach of Joseph Needham (1972) (3)
- The Cradle of the East: Supplementary Comments (1977) (3)
- Improving Student Writing Skills in a History Lecture Course. (1979) (2)
- "There Was an Old Man of Changan....": Limericks and the Teaching of Early Chinese History (1989) (2)
- Early Civilization in China : Reflections on How It Became Chinese " in Heritage of China : Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization (2013) (2)
- Kwang-Chih Chang (1931–2001) (2001) (2)
- Legitimation in Shang China (1975) (2)
- Forum: David N. Keightley (1989) (1)
- Itō Michiharu. Chūgoku Kodai ōchō no Keisei--shutsudo shiryō o chūshin to suru inshūshi no kenkyū (1975) (1)
- Chien-kuo yi-lai chia-ku-wen yen-chiu (1982) (1)
- Reports from the Shang: A Corroboration and Some Speculation (1985) (1)
- Interactions, Weak And Strong (1996) (1)
- Ming Yi-shih shou-ts'ang chia-ku shih-wen pien. The Menzies Collection of Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones. Volume II; The Text (1980) (1)
- The Origin of the Ancient Chinese City: A Comment (1975) (1)
- Executive Qi in Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions (2020) (1)
- Studies of Fascicle Three of Inscriptions from the Yin Ruins, Vol. I: General Notes, Text, and Translations (2012) (1)
- China in antiquity . By Henri Maspero. Translated by Frank A. Kierman Jr., pp. xxxii, 527, 3 maps. Folkestone, Dawson, 1978. £20. (1980) (0)
- 1 ARCHAEOLOGY AND MENTALITY : THE MAKING OF CHINA (2014) (0)
- EAC volume 19 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
- Sources of Shang History: Two Major Oracle-Bone Collections Published in the People's Republic of ChinaChia-ku-wen ho-chi 甲骨文合集Shang Chou chia-ku-wen tsung-chi 商周甲骨文總集Hsiao-t'un nan-ti chia-ku 小屯南地甲骨Chia-ku-wen ho-chi (Jiaguwen heji)Shang Chou chia-ku-wen tsung-chi (Shang zhou jia gu wen zhong ji)Hs (1990) (0)
- Anyang . By Li Chi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. xviii, 304 pp. Map, Color Plates, Figures, Notes, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $25.00. (1978) (0)
- 31. Kingship and Kinship: The Royal Lineages of Late Shang (1986) (0)
- Early China. Volume 1, Fall 1975 (1977) (0)
- EAC volume 13 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
- Chung-kuo chiu-shih-ch'i shih-tai wen-hua yi-chih (Paleolithic Sites in China), by Hsieh Yen-p'ing and Yu Hsüeh-hua Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1984. xxi, 167 pp., map, plates. (1985) (0)
- The Works of David Noel Keightley (1995) (0)
- Divinatory Conventions in Late Shang China (2020) (0)
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