| |
- Chapter Contents
- Introduction; Calendar and chronology; Geography and climate;
- 1. China on the eve of the historical period;
- 2. Language and writing;
- 3. Shang archaeology;
- 4. The Shang: China’s first historical dynasty;
- 5. Western Zhou history;
- 6. Western Zhou archaeology;
- 7. The waning of the Bronze Age: material culture and social developments, 770–481 BC;
- 8. The Spring and Autumn period;
- 9. Warring States: the political history;
- 10. The art and architecture of the Warring States period;
- 11. The classical philosophical writings;
- 12. Warring states: natural philosophy and occult thought;
- 13. The Northern Frontier in pre-Imperial China;
- 14. The heritage left to the Empires.
|
|
|  |
|
|
|
Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Hardback
9780521470308, 0521470307-2961170
-
Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Hardback
-
by Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy, editors
-
1180 pages, with 144 line diagrams, 78 half-tones, 18 tables. 1999
Contributors: Loewe, Shaughnessy, Keightley, Kwang-chih Chang, Boltz, Bagley, Rawson, von Falkenhausen, Cho-yun Hsu, Lewis, Wu Hung, Sheperd Nivison, Harper, di Cosmo
Description: It provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. 14 leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than 1000 years. There are 2 chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological evidence. There are also chapters on the Neolithic background, language, intellectual history, relations with Central Asia, and the debts of both the Qin and Han empires to these earlier time-periods.
|