This article explores the dating of theBook of Lord Shang(Shangjunshu商君書). Despite the importance of this text as one of major ideological products of the Warring States period (453–221b.c.e.), it remained largely ignored in mainstream Western Sinology, in part because of the confusion about the dates of its composition. The article analyzes different criteria employed by earlier scholars to ascertain the dates of individual chapters of theBook of Lord Shangand investigates the relative weight of each of these criteria. This results in a methodologically transparent discussion, which not only advances our understanding of the complex textual history of theBook of LordShang but also makes a step toward establishment of a commonly acceptable set of dating determinants which may be employed in investigating the dates of other pre-imperial (i.e. pre-221b.c.e.) texts.

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约会一个先于帝国的文本：商书的案例研究

这篇文章探讨了约会商王之书(尚君书商君书）。尽管该文本作为战国时期（453-221公元前)，它在西方主流汉学中仍然很大程度上被忽视，部分原因是对其构成日期的混淆。本文分析了早期学者用来确定《圣经》各章日期的不同标准。商王之书并调查每个标准的相对权重。这导致了在方法论上透明的讨论，这不仅促进了我们对复杂的文本历史的理解。主之书尚在建立一套普遍接受的年代决定因素方面迈出了一步，这些决定因素可用于调查其他前帝国时期（即 221 年前）的年代。公元前) 文本。