Introduction / Dirk Meyer 1.Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the "Canon of Yao" / Martin Kern 2.Competing Voices in the Shangshu / Kai Vogelsang 3.Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from "Gu ming" / Dirk Meyer 4.One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the "Duo shi" and "Duo fang" Chapters of the Shangshu and in the "Shang shi" Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu / Joachim Gentz 5.The Qinghua "Jinteng" Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou / Magnus Ribbing Gren 6."Shu" Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of "Jinteng" and "Zhou Wu Wang you ji" / Dirk Meyer 7.The Ft Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches / Yegor Grebnev 8.The "Harangues" (Shi) in the Shangshu / Martin Kern 9.Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts / David Schaberg 10.A Toiling Monarch? The "Wu yi" Chapter Revisited / Yuri Pines 11.Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of "Wu yi" / Michael Hunter 12."Bi shi", Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China / Maria Khayutina 13.Concepts of Law in the Shangshu / Charles Sanft 14.Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu "Yu gong" and Yi Zhoushu "Wang hui" / Robin McNeal Index