² See Fan Yuzhou , ‘Yindai Wu Ding shiqi de zhanzheng’ , M.A. Thesis, Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan yanjiusheng yuan (1981). The periodization is based on recent articles by Professors Li Xueqin , Qiu Xigui and Lin Yun see Li Xueqin, ‘Guanyu Duizu buci de yixie wenti’ , Guwenzi yanjiu , 3, 1980; Qiu Xigui, ‘Lun Lizu buci de shidai’ , Guwenzi yanjiu, 6, 1981; and Lin Yun, ‘Xiaotun nandi fajue yu Yinxu jiagu duandai’ , Guwenzi yanjiu, 9, 1984.

³ I discussed these again with Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy and his students, Debby Porter and Cai Fangpei, when I worked with Shaughnessy and joined his seminar on oracle-bone inscriptions at the University of Chicago early last year. For illustrations of the inscriptions dealt with in this article, see the rubbings produced in plates I-VIII.

⁴ Preface to Dong, Zuobin, Yinxu wenzi yibian (1948)Google Scholar.

⁵ Chen, Mengjia, Yinxu buci zongshu (1956, 156–67)Google Scholar.

⁶ See Dong, Zuobin, op. cit., n.4 above; see also by the same author, ‘Jiaguwen duandai yanjiu li’ , Lishi yuyan yanjiusuo jikan waibian , 1, 1933Google Scholar and Yinli pu (1945)Google Scholar.

⁷ Hu Houxuan Jiagu xucun (1955); Yinxu fajue (1955), 100.

⁸ Art. cit., n.5 above.

⁹ Art. cit., n.2 above.

¹⁰ Lin Yun, art. cit., n.2 above.

¹¹ Op. cit., n.4 above.

¹² Art. cit., n.7 above.

¹³ Xueqin, Li, ‘Di Yi shidai de feiwang buci’ , Kaogu xuebao , 1957. 3.Google Scholar

¹⁴ See n.5 above; Maekawa Shōzō, ‘Goso bokuji ni tsuite no kosatsu’ Chuletsu bungaku kaiho I, 48–69; translated into Chinese by Fan Yuzhou , Guwenzi yanjiu , 8, 1983Google Scholar.

¹⁵ Art. cit., n.13 above.

¹⁶ Zi is also transcribed Xi by Professor Shaughnessy, but I transcribe it as Zi; see n.2 above.

¹⁷ Here I use this table to express ideas inspired by Professor Shaughnessy's method.

¹⁸ This work has been done in my degree thesis, cited in n.2 above.

¹⁹ See n.2 above.