It is submitted that the Shang rulers kept these inscriptions sacred because they were records of confirmed decisions or judgments and because they provided important precedents to the Shang rulers for future deliberations. There is practically no mention of the oracle bones in the abundant accounts o...
According to some historians, the story of the Hindu-Arabic system (e.g. Lam and Ang2004) is derived from the Chinese story. See (Chemla1998) for a different historical perspective and more details in this volume, Chap.3. This system and its use, which was systematically presented in the...