Editing Oracle bone script (section)

== Scholarship ==
[[File:Wang Yirong.jpg|thumb|upright|Wang Yirong, Chinese politician and scholar, was the first to recognize the oracle bone inscriptions as ancient writing.]]

Among the major scholars making significant contributions to the study of the oracle bone writings, especially early on, were:{{sfn|Xu|2002|pp=16–19}}
* [[Wang Yirong]] recognized the characters as being ancient Chinese writing in 1899.
* [[Liu E (writer)|Liu E]] collected five thousand oracle bone fragments, published the first collection of 1,058 rubbings entitled ''Tieyun Canggui'' ({{lang|zh|鐵雲藏龜}}, Tie Yun's [i.e., Liu E] Repository of Turtles) in 1903,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Creamer |first=Thomas B. I. |title=History, languages, and lexicographers |publisher=De Gruyter |year=1992 |isbn=978-3-11-134107-1 |editor-last=Zgusta |editor-first=Ladislav |page=108 |chapter=Lexicography and the history of the Chinese language}}</ref> and correctly identified thirty-four characters.
* [[Sun Yirang]] was the first serious researcher of oracle bones.
* [[Luo Zhenyu]] collected over 30,000 oracle bones and published several volumes, identified the names of the Shang kings, and thus positively identified the oracle bones as being artifacts from the Shang reign.
* [[Wang Guowei]] demonstrated that the commemorative cycle of the Shang kings matched the list of kings in [[Sima Qian]]'s ''[[Records of the Grand Historian|Records of the Historian]]''.
* [[Dong Zuobin]] identified the diviners and established a chronology for the oracle bones as well as numerous other dating criteria.
* [[Guo Moruo]] editor of the ''[[Jiaguwen Heji]]'', the largest published collection of oracle bones. 
* [[Ken-ichi Takashima]], first scholar to systematically treat the language of the oracle bones from the perspective of modern linguistics.