Introduction : writing as a phenomenon of literacy / Li Feng and David Prager Branner -- Getting "right" with heaven and the origins of writing in China / David W. Pankenier -- Literacy and the emergence of writing in China / William G. Boltz -- Phonology in the Chinese script and its relationship to early Chinese literacy / David Prager Branner -- Literacy to the south and the east of Anyang in Shang China : Zhengzhou and Daxinzhuang / Ken-ichi Takashima -- The evidence for scribal training at Anyang / Adam Smith -- Textual identity and the role of literacy in the transmission of early Chinese literature / Matthias L. Richter -- The royal audience and its reflections in western Zhou bronze inscriptions / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Literacy and the social contexts of writing in the western Zhou / Li Feng -- Education and the way of the former kings / Constance A. Cook -- Soldiers, scribes, and women : literacy among the lower orders in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- Craftsman's literacy : uses of writing by male and female artisans in Qin and Han China / Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.