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The 36 pages that link to Oracle bone script, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese calligraphyBroader topic: Its inscriptions preserve early character forms that later calligraphic traditions transformed.

• Shang dynastyBroader topic: Its inscriptions record Shang divinations, royal names, and events.

• Chinese charactersBroader topic: Its inscriptions provide early evidence for the historical development of characters.

• Writing systemBroader topic: It documents an independent early tradition that developed into Chinese characters.

• Chinese languageBroader topic: Its inscriptions provide the earliest extensive evidence for the history of Chinese writing.

• WritingBroader topic: Its inscriptions document an early independent tradition of writing.

• Literary ChineseBroader topic: Its inscriptions stand among the earliest surviving stages of the written tradition.

• Chinese writingBroader topic: These inscriptions preserve an early stage of the writing system.

• Traditional Chinese charactersBroader topic: Its inscriptions document early stages in the long development of Chinese character forms.

• Classical Chinese proseBroader topic: Its inscriptions are among the ancient written sources behind the tradition later prose writers revered.

• History of writingBroader topic: It documents an early writing tradition that developed in East Asia.

• Chinese numeralsBroader topic: Its inscriptions include early written number forms.

• National Library of ChinaBroader topic: The library’s collections support study of early Chinese writing and its surviving artifacts.

• Recorded historyBroader topic: These divination records document early Chinese political and religious life.