Preface
Citation and Transcription Conventions
Climate 1
Agriculture 9
Agricultural Schedule 10
Pests and Disease 13
Time：Days, Nights, and Suns 17
Day and Night 19
Sun Cult 25
The Shang Day 29
Time：Calendrical Structures 37
The Sixty-Day Cycle 37
The Xun Week 39
The Lunation 43
The Five-Ritual Cycle 47
The Numbered Si Ritual Cycle 50
Space：Center and Periphery 55
The Capital or Cult Center 56
Tu ±: The Four Lands 61
Fang Areas and Powers 66
Wu Powers 72
Goings Out and Comings In 74
Space：Cosmos and Orientation 81
Orientation 82
Cardinal Directions：The Land 86
Cardinal Directions：The Weather 91
Divination Bones as World Maps 93
Community：The Land and Its Inhabitants 97
The Royal Community 98
Other Communities 103
Men, Animals, and Landscape 107
Powers on the Land 113
Cosmologies and Legacies：The ``Winds'' of Shang 121
Figures 131
Tables 143
Key to the Inscriptions Translated, by References Number 147
Index to the Inscriptions Translated 153
Bibliography A：Abbreviations for the Oracle-Bone Collections and Reference Works Cited 159
Bibliography B：Other Works Cited 163
Index
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