Editing Oracle bone (section)

== Publication ==
Oracle bone inscriptions were published as they were discovered, in [[Fascicle (book)|fascicles]]. Subsequently, many collections of inscriptions were also published. The following are the main collections.

*{{zhi|c=殷墟文字甲編|p=Yinxu wenzi jiabian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷墟文字乙編|p=Yinxu wenzi yibian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷墟文字丙編|p=Yinxu wenzi bingbian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷虛書契前編|p=Yin xu shu qi qian bian}}
*{{zhi|c=集殷虛文字楹帖彙編|p=Ji Yin xu wen zi ying tie hui bian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷墟萃編|p=Yinxu cuibian}}
*{{zhi|c=后上|p=Houshang}}
*{{zhi|c=后下|p=Houxia}}
*{{zhi|c=粹編|p=Cuibian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷虛書契續編|p=yīn xū shū qì xù biān}}
*{{zhi|c=亀甲|p=Kikkō}}
*{{zhi|c=殷契摭佚續編|p=Yinqizhiyi xubian}}
*{{zhi|c=殷契遺珠|p=Yinqi yizhu}}
*{{zhi|c=京都大學人文科学研究所蔵甲骨文字|p=Kyōto daigaku jimbunkagaku kenkyūshozō kōkotsumoji}}
*{{zhi|c=殷契佚存|p=Yiqi yicun}}
*{{zhi|c=甲骨綴合編|p=Jiagu zhuihebian}}
*{{zhi|c=鐵雲藏龜拾遺|p=Tieyun canggui shiyi}}
*{{zhi|c=戰後京津新獲甲骨集|p=Zhanhou Jingjin xinhuo jiaguji}} (1954)
*{{zhi|c=殷墟文字存真|p=Yinxu wenzi cunzhen}}
*{{zhi|c=戰後寧滬新獲甲骨集|p=Zhanhou Ninghu xinhuo jiaguji}} (1951)

Observing that the citation of these different works was becoming unwieldy, historians [[Hu Houxuan]] and [[Guo Moruo]] began an effort to comprehensively publish all bones discovered by the mid-1950s. The result, the ''[[Jiaguwen Heji]]'' (1978–1982) was edited by Houxuan and Guo Moruo and,{{efn|The ''Heji'' was published between 1978 and 1982 by the Zhonghua Publishing House.  Somewhat unusually, the work was credited to Guo Moruo ({{zhi|c=郭沫若}}) as {{zhi|c=主編}} and Hu Houxuan ({{zhi|c=胡厚宣}}) as {{zhi|c=总编辑}}.  Both terms are translated into English as 'chief editor' or 'editor-in-chief'.  The project of a creating comprehensive catalog of oracle bone inscriptions was proposed in the early 1950s by Guo, who served as the first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 1949 to 1978.  Hu was transferred from Fudan University to the CAS in 1956 for the purpose of editing the ''Heji'', and was in charge of the day-to-day editorial activity of the ''Heji'' when the project officially began in 1961, with Guo playing an advisory role.  Guo passed away in 1978.}} with its supplement (1999) edited by Peng Bangjiong, is the most comprehensive catalogue of the oracle bone fragments. The 20 volumes contain reproductions of over 55,000 fragments.  A separate work published in 1999 contains transcriptions of the inscriptions into standard characters.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2013|pp=685–686}}