# Wang Guowei · Person

> Historian who in 1917 matched the ancestors and kings named in the inscriptions to Sima Qian's Shang king list, confirming the list with corrections and…

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# Wang Guowei

Historian who in 1917 matched the ancestors and kings named in the inscriptions to Sima Qian's Shang king list, confirming the list with corrections and fixing the bones as Shang royal records. **1877–1927.**

[The unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)[1 event][1 source]

Wang Guowei is historian whose 1917 study tied the inscriptions' royal ancestors to the Shiji king list. (1877–1927), and appears in the record of unread oracle bone characters as historian who in 1917 matched the ancestors and kings named in the inscriptions to Sima Qian's Shang king list, confirming the list with corrections and fixing the bones as Shang royal records.

One event on the site involves Guowei: Wang Guowei matches the ancestors named in the inscriptions to the Shiji king list (1917).

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## In the mysteries

**The unread oracle bone characters**

1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)

## What Wang Guowei did 1

1917[Wang Guowei matches the ancestors named in the inscriptions to the Shiji king list](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/events/EVT0DEDMTQ8CQNX/wang-guowei-matches-the-ancestors-named-in-the-inscriptions)

## Sources 1

[Yin buci zhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao (The Predynastic Ancestors and Kings Seen in the Yin Divination Inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGA29RA0K/yin-buci-zhong-suojian-xiangong-xianwang-kao-the-predynastic)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Wang Guowei [Person FIG0DEDJMCDJZ2K]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDJMCDJZ2K
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Person

Born

1877-12-02

Died

1927-06-02

Occupation

historian, palaeographer

Identity

Historian whose 1917 study tied the inscriptions' royal ancestors to the Shiji king list.

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