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The Qiang and the Question of Human Sacrifice in the Late Shang Period

Shelach, Gideon (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 1996)

The character that many scholars read as Qiang appears in more than 800 known late Shang oracle bone inscriptions, most of which refer to the ritual sacrifice of Qiang people. More than half of all the human victims mentioned ...