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=== Modern discoveries === New light has been shed on the ''Book of Documents'' by the recovery between 1993 and 2008 of caches of [[Bamboo and wooden slips|texts written on bamboo slips]] from tombs of the [[state of Chu]] in [[Jingmen, Hubei]].{{sfnp|Liao|2001}} These texts are believed to date from the late Warring States period, around 300 BC, and thus predate the burning of the books during the Qin dynasty.{{sfnp|Liao|2001}} The [[Guodian Chu Slips]] and the Shanghai Museum corpus include quotations of previously unknown passages of the work.{{sfnp|Liao|2001}}{{sfnp|Shaughnessy|2006|pp=56–58}} The [[Tsinghua Bamboo Slips]] includes a version of the transmitted text "Golden Coffer", with minor textual differences, as well as several documents in the same style that are not included in the received text. The collection also includes two documents that the editors considered to be versions of the Old Script texts "Common Possession of Pure Virtue" and "Command to [[Fu Yue]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=First Research Results on Warring States Bamboo Strips Collected by Tsinghua University Released |publisher=[[Tsinghua University]] |work=Tsinghua University News |date=May 26, 2011 |url=http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/newsen/6057/2011/20110304172109458964142/20110304172109458964142_.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725180238/http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/newsen/6057/2011/20110304172109458964142/20110304172109458964142_.html |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}</ref> Other authors have challenged these straightforward identifications.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Li Rui 李銳|date=2013|title=清华简《傅说之命》研究.|journal=Shenzhen Daxue Xuebao. Shehui Kexueban. 深圳大学学报(人文社会科学版) Journal of Shenzhen University (Humanities & Social Sciences)|volume=30|issue=6|pages=68–72}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Edward L. Shaughnessy|date=2020|title=A Possible Lost Classic: The *She Ming, or *Command to She.|journal=T'oung Pao|volume=106.3–4|pages=266–308}}</ref>
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