Format:
1 Online-Ressource (301 p)
ISBN:
9780765615992
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Illustration credits -- About the authors -- 1 Introduction to Ancient China -- Introduction -- Diversity and continuity in ancient China -- Eras, cultures, nations, states, and dynasties -- Dynastic rule in the ancient East Asian Heartland Region -- Two historical myths: "isolated China" and "unchanging China" -- Why study ancient China? -- 2 Geography, climate, and the physical setting of Chinese history -- Introduction -- The Northern Heartland Region
Content:
The Southern Heartland Region -- The Extended East Asian Heartland Region: The northeast and north -- The Extended East Asian Heartland Region: The northwest and west -- The Extended East Asian Heartland Region: The south -- The climate of the East Asian Heartland Region -- The human landscape -- Focus: Loess -- Focus: The Qinling Mountains -- Focus: Millet -- Focus: Rice -- Focus: Ox Mountain -- 3 The Neolithic Era and the Jade Age -- Introduction -- Overview -- The end of the Paleolithic, and the Neolithic transition -- The Neolithic transition in East Asia -- The Early Neolithic
Content:
Representative Early Neolithic sites -- The Middle Neolithic and the beginning of the Jade Age -- The Late Neolithic: Longshan -- Focus: Shamanism -- Focus: Signs on Neolithic pottery -- Focus: Jade -- Focus: Ritual jades and cosmic symbolism -- 4 The Early Bronze Age -- Introduction -- The Three Dynasties and the Bronze Age -- The Xia enigma -- Erlitou -- The Erlitou economy -- Bronze and bronze production -- Religion, rituals, and cosmology at Erlitou -- Erlitou in context -- Focus: A tomb at Erlitou -- Focus: Yu the Great and China's flood myth -- Focus: Bronze casting by the piece-mold method
Content:
Focus: The Erlitou sky -- Focus: Early Bronze Age warfare -- Focus: The sixty-day cycle and the ten-day week -- 5 The Shang dynasty -- Introduction -- An overview of Shang history -- Characteristics of Shang government and society -- Shang religion -- Shang and its neighbors -- The decline and fall of Shang -- Focus: Oracle bones -- Focus: The discovery of the Shang dynasty -- Focus: Shang bronzes -- Focus: What is Chinese writing? -- Focus: The tomb of Fu Hao -- Focus: Human sacrifice -- Focus: Were Shang kings shamans? -- Focus: The chariot -- 6 The Western Zhou Period -- Introduction
Content:
The Zhou founding myth -- An historical overview -- Inscriptions and literacy -- The ritual state -- Women, commoners, and slaves -- The Western Zhou legacy -- Focus: A Western Zhou tomb -- Focus: What is De? -- Focus: Zhou "feudalism"? -- Focus: A Zhou ancestral hymn from the Book of Odes -- Focus: The Duke of Zhou lectures the nobles of Shang -- Focus: A Zhou bronze inscription -- 7 The Spring and Autumn Period -- Introduction -- Regional cultures and the rise of the peripheral states -- The ba "hegemons" -- Agriculture, technology, and commerce -- Literature, music, and intellectual life
Content:
Focus: A year in the Springs and Autumns
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317503668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765615992
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Major, John S Ancient China : A History Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2016 ISBN 9780765615992
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English
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