Constance A. Cook & Christopher J. Foster 
Myth and the Making of History 
Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan

Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the very heart of China’s origin story. Her work has created an intellectual space in which the disciplines of philosophy, history, anthropology, archeology, philology, and literature have come together, helping to change the way scholars conceive of historical patterns in China’s past. In
Myth and the Making of History, eleven senior and emerging scholars, from both China and the West, respond to the intellectual challenge raised by Allan’s theoretical model of analysis of mythologized and historical figures (and even dynasties) that have intrigued scholars for generations and play a central role in the Chinese historical imagination. The book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of China—of whatever level and discipline—and, indeed, those concerned with other early civilizations as well.

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Preface

Acknowledgments



1. The Place of Yi Yin in the Shang Pantheon


Zhu Fenghan



2. Cao E, the Filial Water Goddess: Gender and Text in the Promotion of a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Cult


Robin D. S. Yates



3. An Examination of Commentaries to
Analects 7.14, 'Confucius Listened to the Shao Performance in Qi’


Wang Yunfei



4. Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and Archaeological Research on the Xia Dynasty


Li Boqian



5. Formation of the 'Nine Provinces’ according to the Tribute Payments Recorded in Oracle-Bone and Bronze Inscriptions


Shen Jianhua



6. The Tsinghua University
Yue Gong qi shi Manuscript and Township Administration in the State of Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period


Wang Jinfeng



7. Marriage and Social Networks in Zhou China: Reflections on the Rules Governing Female Names in Bronze Inscriptions


Li Feng



8. The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in Warring States and Early Han Historiography


Andrew Meyer



9. Historical Narratives in Early Chinese Classics: The Case of the 'Great King Leaving Bin’ in Transmitted Texts and the Bamboo Slips of the
Zhou xun
Cui Xiaojiao



10. Rebuilding King Wen: Paratext as Intellectual Biography in the
Yi Zhou shu Preface


Paul Nicholas Vogt



11. Forging a 'Meta-tradition’: The Distinctive Philosophy of the
Huainanzi
Harold D. Roth



Afterword


Harold D. Roth



List of Contributors

Index

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Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University;
Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar; and
Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan and
Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking through Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.