Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Turtle-Shell Divination in the Zhou Dynasty
The Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies presents a discussion of ancient divination practices
When:
April 7, 2014 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Where
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Pyromancy, the use of fire to cause cracks to appear in bone or shell, is one of the most prominent features of ancient Chinese religious life. It is best known from the inscribed oracle bones of the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200-1045 B.C.), though there is also an extended biography devoted to it in the Records of the Historian of Sima Qian (c. 145-89 B.C.). It is less well known that turtle-shell divination continued to be practiced throughout the intervening Zhou dynasty (c. 1045-249 B.C.). In this talk, Edward L. Shaughnessy will survey the evidence, both traditional and archaeological, for turtle-shell divination during the Zhou dynasty, including the very recently published Shanghai Museum manuscript Turtle-shell Divination Document.
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