Was There a Xià Dynasty? - Sino-Platonic Papers
Was There a Xià Dynasty? - Sino-Platonic Papers
Was There a Xià Dynasty? - Sino-Platonic Papers
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Victor H. Mair, “<strong>Was</strong> <strong>There</strong> a <strong>Xià</strong> <strong>Dynasty</strong>?”<strong>Sino</strong>-<strong>Platonic</strong> <strong>Papers</strong>, 238 (May 2013)doubt that we will ever be sure of that), we are unlikely to be confident of its precise meaning.More importantly none of the OSBI graphs that have been alleged to be xià occurs in a contextthat allows us unmistakably to link it to a pre-Shāng dynasty of that name.XXXVPostscript: My intention in this paper is not to diminish Chinese (pre)history, but to make ourunderstanding of it as precise as possible with the limited means at our disposal.——VHM38
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