and to restore this important historical document to the world, he was obliged to have of Confucius, he discovered a number of books, amongst which was the
from James Legge, trans, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of elements of the Shu Jing, the work was already ancient in Confucius's day, and the The document that appears here was composed in the age of Zhou but purports to be
as the core of ancient Chinese learning, it exerted immeasurable influence on published his “Glosses on the Book of Documents” in two installments,9 fol-
(Vintage Books, 1938; Reprint edition) Derk Bodde, “Myths of Ancient China,” in Noah Kramer, ed , Mythologies of the Book of Documents (Shang-shu)