Research On The Compilation Work Of The Oracle-bone Archives

The compilations of oracle-bone archives are the important part of the compilation work, which arranged and compiled the oracle-bones archives excavated in succession systematically. The compilations reflect the historical process of oracle-bones archives excavations and the work made great contributions for the spread of oracle-bones archives. Of course, this process are not well-off, since the first compilation of oracle-bones archives was born, more and more experts from home and abroad who study the oracle-bones worked hard on the compilations of oracle-bone archives. After years of practice and research on the compilations of oracle-bone archives, the work of the compilations had made great progress in content, style, and form etc and achieved great success.This paper has overviewed the compilations published at home and abroad from 1903 until now. According to the development of the compilations, the paper summarizes the characteristics and trends of the compilations, and mainly introduces some significant compilations of oracle-bone in order to investigate different period and various types of the compilations, and do some analysis through the process, thus promoting contemporary development of the compilation work.The article is divided into three parts, the first part mainly expounds the meaning of the oracle-bone archives compilations, and the content and significance of the compilations work; The second part detailedly discussed the results and characteristics of the domestic and foreign oracle-bone archives compilations; The third part mainly summed up the results of the oracle-bones archives compilations; The final appendix gathers major compilations of the oracle-bone archives published from 1903 until now.