Excavated Manuals from Early China: A New Study of Divination and Medical Practice

Excavated Manuals from Early China

Qiu Jun Oscar Zheng. “To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China.” PhD Diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2026. This new dissertation examines excavated medical, incantatory, and divinatory manuals from early China as archaeological artifacts. Rather than studying received texts that have been rewritten over […]