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The Xia  Shang  Zhou Chronology Project was a multi - disciplinary project commissioned by the People ' s Republic of China in ___MASK10___ to determine with accuracy the location and time frame of the Xia , Shang , and Zhou dynasties . Tsinghua University professor Li Xueqin was the director , and some 200 experts took part in the project , which correlated radiocarbon dating , archaeological dating methods , historical textual analysis , astronomy , and other methods to achieve greater temporal and geographic accuracy . Preliminary results of the project were released in November 2000 . However , several of the project ' s methods and conclusions have been disputed by other scholars . The Records of the Grand Historian , now usually known as the Shjì (" The Scribe ' s Records "), is a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around ___MASK40___ BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian after having been started by his father , Sima Tan , Grand Astrologer to the imperial court . The work covers the world as it was then known to the Chinese and a 2500 - year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in the author ' s own time . Qiang Jia or Wo Jia ( Chinese :  ) was a Shang dynasty King of China . In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the fifteenth Shang king , succeeding his brother Zu Xin (  ) . He was enthroned in the year of Renyan (  ) with Bi (  ) as his capital . He ruled for about 25 years ( although other sources claim 20 years ) before his death . He was given the posthumous name Wo Jia and was succeeded by his nephew Zu Ding (  ) . Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fourteenth Shang king , given the posthumous name Qiang Jia (  ) . The Zhou dynasty was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty . Although the Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history , the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty , surnamed Ji , lasted only until ___MASK66___ BC , a period known as the Western Zhou . The Book of Documents ( Shujing , earlier " Shu - king ") or Classic of History , also known as the Shangshu , is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature . It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China , and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over ___MASK12___ , 000 years . The Xia dynasty ( c . 2070  c . ___MASK91___ ) is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese history . It is described in ancient historical chronicles such as the " Bamboo Annals ", the " Classic of History " and the " Records of the Grand Historian ". According to tradition , the dynasty was established by the legendary Yu the Great after Shun , the last of the Five Emperors gave his throne to him . The Xia was later succeeded by the Shang dynasty ( c . 1600  c . 1046 BCE ). Liu Xin ( c . ___MASK54___ BC  AD ___MASK7___ ), courtesy name Zijun , was a Chinese astronomer , historian , and editor during the Western Han Dynasty ( 206 BC - AD 9 ) and Xin Dynasty ( AD 9  ___MASK7___ ). He later changed his name to Liu Xiu due to the naming taboo of Emperor Ai of Han . He was the son of Confucian scholar Liu Xiang ( 77  ___MASK17___ BC ) and an associate of other prominent thinkers such as the philosopher Huan Tan ( d . 28 AD ). Liu founded the Old Text school of Confucianism . The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty , according to traditional historiography , ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC , succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty . The classic account of the Shang comes from texts such as the " Book of Documents ", " Bamboo Annals " and " Records of the Grand Historian ". According to the traditional chronology based on calculations made approximately ___MASK12___ , 000 years ago by Liu Xin , the Shang ruled from ___MASK72___ to ___MASK15___ BC , but according to the chronology based upon the " current text " of " Bamboo Annals ", they ruled from 1556 to 1046 BC . The Xia  Shang  Zhou Chronology Project dated them from c . 1600 to 1046 BC .