Introduction: The Ritual Texture of Early China / Martin Kern -- Toward an Archaeology of Writing: Text, Ritual, and the Culture of Public Display in the Classical Period (475 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) / Michael Nylan -- The Composite Nature of Early Chinese Texts / William G. Boltz -- The E Jun Qi Metal Tallies: Inscribed Texts and Ritual Contexts / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- The Ritual Meaning of Textual Form: Evidence from Early Commentaries of the Historiographic and Ritual Traditions / Joachim Gentz -- The Odes in Excavated Manuscripts / Martin Kern -- Playing at Critique: Indirect Remonstrance and the Formation of Shi Identity / David Schaberg -- Reimagining the Yellow Emperor's Four Faces / Mark Csikszentmihalyi -- Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Stelae / K. E. Brashier.