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SUMMARY:On the Newly Identified Phrase ‘Worry is gone’ yōu wáng 憂亡\, in the Shāng Oracle Bone Inscriptions
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adam Schwartz\, Hong Kong Baptist University \nVenue: Faculty House\n*Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. \nAmong a recently published collection of Shāng dynasty oracle bones scientifically excavated from various deposits at Xiăotún village\, Ānyáng\, Hénán Province\, there is a fragment of an ox scapulae inscribed with the previously unknown divinatory phrase yōu wáng 憂亡 ‘worry is gone.’  I propose\, against current interpretations\, to read the phrase as it is written and not as a mistaken inversion of the high-frequency phrase wáng yōu 亡憂 ‘there is no [reason to] worry.’ When coupled with other divinatory phrases using the word yōu 憂 that occur in the oracle bone inscriptions\, the newly identified yōu wáng 憂亡 thus completes an integral circle of worry: ‘reason to worry’ > ‘am/is worried’ > ‘worry is gone.’ The discovery\, in so far as it can be accepted\, affords a more comprehensive understanding about the mentality of this negative inner emotion among professional diviners and their royal patrons at the commencement of China’s historical period. \n
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