ChinaYi Zhoushu
逸周書 (Lost Book of Zhou)
Anonymous, composite · c. 400-200 BC (composite of older Western Zhou material and Warring States accretions) · Luoyang, Zhou royal domain (China) · history
A shadow collection of Zhou-era speeches and records, excluded from the canonical Book of Documents but preserved alongside it, argues that the officially sanctioned classic never captured the whole of the dynasty's own archive.
Descends from
- Book of Documents · c. 1000-200 BC (composite; the surviving 'New Text' chapters were reconstructed early in the Han from a scholar's memorized recitation, and the 'Old Text' chapters added later are now recognized as a 4th century AD forgery)
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