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The Hamburg Tomb Text Workshops

The first workshop was held at the Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, on 17–19 June, 2000; the second workshop on 27–29 February, 2004. A next meeting is planned for 2006. In view of future research activities the participants founded the EASCM (European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts).

Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop, 2000
Participants:
William G. Boltz (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
The Structure of Manuscript Texts and the Structure of Transmitted Texts
Hans van Ess (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
Some considerations concerning the relationship of received literature of the Han and newly excavated manuscripts
Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
The Mortuary Context of Warring States Manuscript Finds
Michael Friedrich (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Problems in Dealing with an Early Imperial Tomb Library
Robert H. Gassmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Through the Han-glass darkly: Some critical remarks on the Han-dynasty knowledge of early China and on the rôle of received texts
Enno Giele (University of Münster, Germany)
Some Remarks about Using Excavated Early Chinese Manuscripts as Historical Source Materials
Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo, Norway)
discussant
Ulrich Lau (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
The concept of criminal offence and principles for determining punishment in early imperial China as reflected in the bamboo texts of Zhangjiashan and Shuihudi
Achim Mittag (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities [Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut] Essen, Germany)
Cases of diffrazione (‘diffraction’) and lectio difficilior in Early Chinese manuscripts
Hans Stumpfeldt (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Mirror inscriptions as tomb texts? Some preliminary remarks
Xing Wen 邢文 (Peking University, China)
Schools of Dissemination of Early Chinese Divinatory Classics

Hamburg Tomb Text Workshop, 2004
Participants:
Attilio Andreini (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy)
Cases of diffrazione (‘diffraction’) and lectio difficilior in Early Chinese manuscripts
Wolfgang Behr (Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany)
Orison in jade: reading the Zēngsūn Yīn 曾孫駰 tablet inscriptions
Hans van Ess (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
The Tomb Library of Yinwan: Attempt at an interpretation
Michael Friedrich (University of Hamburg)
discussant
Bernhard Führer (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)
discussant
Imre Galambos (The British Library, London, UK)
Orthographic grammar: The case of the Houma covenant texts
Robert H. Gassmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
What’s in a (Chinese) character? A lexicographer’s visit to the graves
Enno Giele (University of Münster, Germany)
Signatures in Early Imperial China
Marc Kalinowski (École pratique des hautes études, Paris, France)
Preliminary study of the similarities and differences appearing in parallel versions of a same text in the manuscripts of the Warring States and early Han period
Martin Kern (Princeton University, USA)
Quotation in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Ulrich Lau (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
discussant
Achim Mittag (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany)
discussant
Matthias Richter (University of Hamburg, Germany)
On the distribution of different kinds of graphic variants within a manuscript
Ken'ichi Takashima 高嶋謙一 (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Placement of Inscriptions on the Oracle-Bone Plastron as a Guide to Decipherment with Notes on a Few Paleographic and Linguistic Issues
Crispin Williams (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)
A methodological procedure for the palaeographic analysis of the Wenxian covenant tablets
Xing Wen 邢文 (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA)
Towards A Transparent Transcription (presented by Martin Kern)
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