General Preface Ⅰ Huang Dekuan 黃德寬 1 General Preface Ⅱ Edward L. Shaughnessy 8 Conventions 22 Preface to Volume Two 27 Chapter One The Nature of the Shang Shu and Its Place in the Chinese Literary Tradition 29 Chapter Two The Tsinghua Manuscripts and the Shang Shu 55 Chapter Three Fu Yue zhi Ming 傅敓之命 Fu Yue’s Command 97 Appendix 3.1 Quotations of Yue Ming 説命 and Passages Concerning Fu Yue 傅説 145 Chapter Four Zhou Wu Wang you ji Zhou Gong suo zi yi dai wang zhi zhi 周武王有疾周公所自以代王之志 The Record of King Wu of Zhou Having an Illness and the Duke of Zhou Using Himself to Substitute for the King 151 Chapter Five *She ming 攝命 *Command to She 179 Chapter Six Houfu 厚父 Houfu 229 Works Cited 256 Index 275 Images of the Manuscripts 291