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Publication of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 7, Featuring the Shifa Texts
The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 7, authored and translated by Professor Adam Craig Schwartz, Associate Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology at Hong Kong Baptist University, has recently been published. This volume is one of the volumes in The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations series and is published by Tsinghua University Press. Each volume surveys new scholarship in relevant fields and provides annotation and English translation of selected bamboo-slip texts in a fourfold parallel format: original text, liding transcription, modern Chinese characters, and English. Volume 7 focuses on collecting divination and prayer texts, totaling five pieces, with the Shifa (milfoil divination rules and other related texts) as its core content. Through rigorous collation, explication, and translation, Professor Schwartz clearly presents the original contours of these divination texts, with the aim of providing the international scholarly community with more concrete and usable textual resources for studying and using excavated manuscripts.
On 19 January 2026, Professor Schwartz was invited to attend the “Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts (Volume 15), Collated Interpretations, and Studies and Translations Book Launch”, jointly hosted by the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts of Tsinghua University, Zhongxi Book Company, The Commercial Press, and Tsinghua University Press. He delivered a featured presentation entitled “An Introduction of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 7,” outlining key points regarding the volume’s contents and the editorial and translation work, and exchanging views with mainland scholars on the collation, annotation, and publication of the Tsinghua bamboo manuscripts.