The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Ritual Origins of the Calendar

This record cites a specific book chapter, Adam Smith's study of the Chinese sexagenary cycle and the ritual origins of the calendar, published in John Steele's edited volume Calendars and Years II, Oxford: Oxbow, 2011. The bibliographic record was found to have originally named a different author, title and publisher entirely; it has since been corrected to the chapter actually consulted, verified against the author's own posted copy of the chapter and the publisher's table of contents. The author is a paleographer specializing in early Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, and the chapter works directly from the earliest surviving evidence for the ten day ritual week named by the Heavenly Stems on oracle bones from the Shang period, the specific claim this atlas cites it for. Use it for the oracle bone evidence for the ten stem ritual week; it is a narrowly focused chapter, not a general history of Chinese astrology.