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- According to the Zhouli, proclamations could be issued by royal authority with the use of various jade objects.28 For example, the ya zhang, a tablet resembling a knife with a projecting tooth, was sent to mobilize troops.29 Unfortunately the vali�dity of such accounts is unsubstantiated.
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1 Legge, Li Ki: The Sacred Books of the East, 1885, Bk II, Vol. XXVIII, p. 25.
2 Hansford, Chinese Jade Carving, London, 1950, p. 31.
3 Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch�ing, New York, 1980, p. 29.
4 Cheng Te-k�un, �Chinese Jade: A General Survey,�� in Ip Yee, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 29-30.
5 Hansford, loc. cit.
6 Xia Nai, Jade and Silk of Han China, Kansas, 1983, p. 18.
7 Kao and Yang, �On Jade Suits and Han Archaeology,� in Archaeology Vol 36 No 6 1983, p. 33.
8 Zhejiang Provincial Museum, �First Season Excavations at Hemudu,� Kaogu Xuebao No. 1, 1978, pp. 39-94.
9 Wang Zunguo, �Notes on Shrouding and Burying in Jade of the Liangzhu Culture,� Wen- wu, No. 2, 1 984, p. 33.
10 Ibid.
11 Cheng Te-k�un, loc. cit.
12 Beijing Jade Factory Research Team, �Some Preliminary Remarks on Jade Carving Techniques of the Shang Dynasty,� Kaogu, No. 4, 1976, p. 231.
13 Ibid., p. 230.
14 Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975.
15 Institute of Archaeology, The Jades From Yinxu, Beijing, 1982, p. 11.
16 Rawson, �The Surface Decoration on Jades of the Chou and Han Dynasties � Oriental Art, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, p. 53.
17 Shi Xingban, �Excavations of the Western Zhou Burials in Puducun, Changan � Kaogu Xuebao, No. 8, 1954, pp. 109-26.
18 Kuwayama, Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections, Los Angeles, 1976, p. 11.
19 Rawson, loc. cit.
20 Loehr, op. cit., p. 21.
21 Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art, 1965.
22 Xia Nai, op. cit., p. 21.
23 Biot, Chou Li, Paris, 1851, pp. 434-35.
24 Ibid., p. 410.
25 Xia Nai, op. cit., p. 22.
26 Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades, London, 1968, p. 60.
27 Xia Nai, op. cit., p. 25.
28 Na Chih-liang lists several different shapes of the gui tablet and their functions: to console people during disaster, to subjugate an official who had committed a crime, to award a prize to an official for his merit or good conduct, to arbitrate disputes between high officials and to marry princes. A tiger tally was carved in the shape of a tiger and spilt into two halves, one being kept by the court and the other given to the military leader. When the two halves fitted together perfectly, it was known that the order had not been faked. Chinese Art Treasures: No. 2, Jade Objects, Taiwan, 1983, pp. 132-33.
29 Biot, op. cit., p. 527.
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