Studies of Guodian Chu Slips and other excavated materials that is concerning with them

从1999年春天开始，我们六名研究人员在这个项目上工作了三年。以下是前文《楚国地区出土材料与中国古代文化》的前言和后记以及研究结果报告的序言注释中详细叙述的成果总结。这个项目的主要目标是以下三点。(1)为了获得全局性和跨领域的学术成果，来自不同领域的几位研究者在同一主题下以各自的方式进行了研究。(2)相互验证研究结果，不自满、不排外，与国内外研究者保持联系。(3)以楚国新出土材料为研究对象，从地域性角度重新审视迄今为止的中国思想史研究。因此，1999年，研究人员前往中国，通过与当地研究人员的交流，收集信息并交流研究结果。2000年，我们策划并举办了“瓜甸朱简国际学术研讨会”，目的是将交流的成果回馈给学术界。2001年出版了《楚地区新出土材料与中国古代文化》（Kyukoshoin出版社，2002.3），向学界展示了我们的研究成果。此外，作为我们的常规活动，我们每隔一个月聚会一次，举办公开会议，邀请国内外的研究人员。我们是否从这个项目中获得了真正有价值的结果，我们的报告将在学术界进行评估后才能知道。

Since the spring of 1999, we, six researchers as above, have worked on the project for three years. Here is the summary of the outcome which is previously stated in detail in the preface and postscript to "Chu area's excavated materials and Chinese ancient culture" published by Kyukoshoin publishing and the prefatory note in the report on the result of studies.This project aims chiefly at following three points. (1) To obtain overall and field-crossing scholarly results, several researchers from different fields did the study in their individual ways under the main theme. (2) To mutually verify the results of study and not to be self-contented and exclusive by keeping in touch with domestic and foreign researchers. (3) To reconsider the research on the history of Chinese thought so far from the point of view of locality with the study of newly excavated materials at Chu.Therefore 1999, researchers went to China, and had information collected and study results exchanged through interchange with local researchers.In 2000, we planned and held an international symposium called "An international academic symposium on Guadian Chu Slips" for the purpose of returning profits from those exchanges to the academic world.In 2001, we published "Chu area's new excavated materials and Chinese ancient culture"(published by Kyukoshoin, 2002.3.) to present our fruits of studies to the academic world.What's more, as our regular activity, we gathered once in every other month and hosted open meetings inviting researchers from home and abroad.Whether or not we achieved a truly valuable result from this project will become clear hereafter when our report will be evaluated in the academic world.