Scholarship & Culture

JAS Oracle Bone Seminars (2019/9-11)

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2019 is the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bones and the 60th anniversary of the publication of Professor Jao Tsung-i’s monumental work Oracle Bone Diviners of the Yin Dynasty (Yindai zhenbu renwu tongkao. Hong Kong University Press, 1959). To commemorate the two occasions, the Academy has invited prominent experts on oracle bone studies to speak at a lecture series at JAS from September to November.

The seminars include:

2019/9/3
13:00–14:30

Oracle Bone Calligraphy of Professor Jao Tsung-i (Guided tour & Talk, Click the title to view the video of the lecture)

Dr. Thomas Tang Wai Hung (Deputy Director [Art] of Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, The University of Hong Kong)

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2019/11/6
11:00-12:30

How to Appreciate Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Prof. Huang Tianshu (Professor, Research and Conservation Center for Excavated Texts, Tsinghua University)

[In view of the current situation, the Academy has decided, after careful consideration and extensive discussions with our speaker, to postpone this Lecture. Notices will be posted when a new date is set.]

 

Looking Back at a Hundred Years of Research in the Early Tribal Chiefs and Kings of the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BCE) (Click the title to view the video of the lecture)

Prof. Tsai Che-mao (Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)

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Summary (Recorded by Pang Kun):

中央研究院歷史語言研究所兼任研究院蔡哲茂教授來我院作題為《百年來殷先公先王研究的回顧》的報告。報告從20世紀初王國維從依據甲骨文對殷人「先公先王」這一問題的探討開始，探討了自茲以降海內外學者圍繞這一問題進行的爭辯，對多種不同意見的得失進行了評價，並認為應將《史記》殷人先公序列中的「昭明」、「相土」、「昌若」、「曹圉」等剔除去，而在殷人始祖「契」與「冥」之間補上「昧」，以契合甲骨文等出土材料的記載。報告又提出甲骨文的「內證法」，並藉助這一理論對殷人先王的世係及相關的一些概念進行了梳理，其結論則在一定程度上挑戰了傳統先王世係的排列。