Significant contents of "Zhan Guo Ce" were lost in subsequent centuries. Zeng Gong of the Northern Song Dynasty reclaimed some lost chapters, proofread and edited the modern version. Some writings on cloth were excavated from the Han Dynasty tomb at Mawangdui near the city of Changsha in 1973 and edited and published in Beijing in 1976 as "Zhanguo Zonghengjia Shu" (, "Works from the School of Diplomacy During the Warring States Period)". The book contained 27 chapters, 11 of which were found to be similar to the contents in "Zhan Guo Ce" and the "Records of the Grand Historian". That publication appeared in Taiwan in 1977 as the "Boshu Zhanguoce" (). The texts were written in between the style of Seal script and Clerical script. The transcript was probably composed around 195BC before its burial, as the text tend to avoid using the word "bang" (邦), the personal name of Emperor Gao of Han, to circumvent naming taboo.