Edward Louis Shaughnessy (born July 29, 1952) is an Americansinologist, scholar, and educator, known for his studies of earlyChinese history, particularly theZhou dynasty, and his studies of theClassic of Changes (I Ching 易經).^[1]

Edward Shaughnessy was born on July 29, 1952. He attended theUniversity of Notre Dame as an undergraduate student, graduating in 1974 with aB.A. intheology, after which he spent several years studyingChinese inTaiwan andJapanese inKyoto, Japan. He then went toStanford University for graduate study in Asian languages, earning hisPh.D. in 1983 with a dissertation entitled "The Composition of theZhouyi". After receiving his Ph.D., Shaughnessy joined the faculty of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at theUniversity of Chicago, where he is currently the Lorraine J. andHerrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early Chinese Studies.^[2]

Shaughnessy's wife, Elena Valussi, is an Italian scholar of East Asian history who teaches atLoyola University Chicago. They have two children.

• Shaughnessy, Edward L. (1983). "The Composition of theZhouyi". Ph.D. dissertation (Stanford University).
• ——— (1986). "On the Authenticity of theBamboo Annals".Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.46 (1):149–180.doi:10.2307/2719078.JSTOR 2719078.
• ——— (1992).Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 0-520-07028-3.
• ——— (1994). "A First Reading of the MawangduiYijing Manuscript".Early China.19:47–73.doi:10.1017/S0362502800003552.S2CID 247327998.
• ——— (1997).Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press.ISBN 0-791-43378-1.
• ——— (1997).I Ching: the Classic of Changes. New York: Ballantyne Books.ISBN 0-345-36243-8.
• ———, ed. (1997).New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts. Early China Monograph Series3. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China; Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley.ISBN 1-55729-058-X
• ———;Loewe, Michael, eds. (1999).The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-47030-8
• ———, ed. (2005).China: Empire and Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-518287-1
• ——— (2006).Rewriting Early Chinese Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press.ISBN 0-7914-6643-4.
• ——— (2014).Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0231161848.

• Biography of Shaughnessy,University of Chicago website.

• 1952 births
• Living people
• American sinologists
• University of Notre Dame alumni
• Stanford University alumni
• University of Chicago faculty
• Scholars of ancient Chinese philosophy

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