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Yin buci zhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao (The Predynastic Ancestors and Kings Seen in the Yin Divination Inscriptions)

Wang Guowei, 1917.

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Identified 31 Shang ancestors and kings as sacrifice recipients in the inscriptions and showed that Sima Qian's king list in the Shiji was largely correct, with corrections. This is the check that fixed the inscriptions as Shang royal records. Pointer page used for the bibliographic data.

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Wang Guowei (1917). Yin buci zhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao (The Predynastic Ancestors and Kings Seen in the Yin Divination Inscriptions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Guowei
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