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Author : William Charles White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Bronzes
ISBN : UOM:39015011341248
Author : Shanghai bo wu guan,Peifen Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041053557
Author : David N. Keightley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520305762
The seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, botany, climatology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethnography, epigraphy, linguistics, metallurgy, and political and social history. Readers interested in such topics as the origin of rice or millet agriculture, the origin of writing, the nature of the trie, and the processes of state formation will find much value here. They will find, too, major hypotheses about teh cultural importance of ecogeographical zones in China, Neolithic interaction between the east coast and Central Plains, the remarkable homogeneity of early Chinese crania, and the links between the Hsia, Shang, and Chou dynasties. Relying on recently published archaeological evidence and the insights gained from carbon-14 and thermoluminescent datings, the authors provide original and significant interpretations of the nature of Chinese civilization in its formative stage and the processes by which civilizations form. Since there is little doubt that the complex of culture traits which defines Chinese civilization in the second and fist millennia B.C. developed from a Chinese Neolithic stage, the origin of the Chinese civilization is worth studying not only in its own right but as an instance of the indigenous development of civilizations in general. This volume will appeal to all who are intersted in the genesis of civilization and the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age; it summarizes that state of present knowledge about China and suggests research strategies and hypotheses for the future. Contributors:Noel BarnardK. C. ChangTe-Tzu ChangCheung Kwong-YueWayne H. FoggUrsula Martius FranklinMorton H. FriedW. W. HowellsLouisa G. Fitzgerald HuberKarl JettmarDavid N. KeightleyFang Kuei LiHui-Lin LiWilliam MeachamRichard PearsonE.G. PulleyblankRobert Orr Whyte This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
Author : Robert L. Thorp
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203615
One of the great breakthroughs in Chinese studies in the early twentieth century was the archaeological identification of the earliest, fully historical dynasty of kings, the Shang (ca. 1300-1050 B.C.E.). The last fifty years have seen major advances in all areas of Chinese archaeology, but recent studies of the Shang, their ancestors, and their contemporaries have been especially rich. Since the last English-language overview of Shang civilization appeared in 1980, the pace of discovery has quickened. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization is the first work in twenty-five years to synthesize current knowledge of the Shang for everyone interested in the origins of Chinese civilization. China in the Early Bronze Age traces the development of early Bronze Age cultures in North and Northwestern China from about 2000 B.C.E., including the Erlitou culture (often identified with the Xia) and the Erligang culture. Robert L. Thorp introduces major sites, their architectural remains, burials, and material culture, with special attention to jades and bronze. He reviews the many discoveries near Anyang, site of two capitals of the Shang kings. In addition to the topography of these sites, Thorp discusses elite crafts and devotes a chapter to the Shang cult, its divination practices, and its rituals. The volume concludes with a survey of the late Shang world, cultures contemporary with Anyang during the late second millennium B.C.E. Fully documented with references to Chinese archaeological sources and illustrated with more than one hundred line drawings, China in the Early Bronze Age also includes informative sidebars on related topics and suggested readings. Students of the history and archaeology of early civilizations will find China in the Early Bronze Age the most up-to-date and wide-ranging introduction to its topic now in print. Scholars in Chinese studies will use this work as a handbook and research guide. This volume makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the formative stages of Chinese culture.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Robert W. Bagley,Jenny F. So,Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 9780870992261
Describes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.
Author : Fan Jeremy Zhang,Jay Xu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art objects, Chinese
ISBN : 9780520341647
"Featuring about 150 loans from China's Hubei Provincial Museum, this exhibition, set to open at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco under the name Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China, examines the new finds of Zeng and Chu tombs together to explore the cultural landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty. It also reveals the legendary rising story of the phoenix kingdom erased by the Qin, highlighting the importance of the middle Yangtze River region in forming a southern style in Chinese art. For a better understanding of the Zeng and Chu material, the exhibition catalogue consists of seven essays to elaborate the introduction to the remarkable art and culture of this region, with entries of about 150 works in six categories (jade, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and artefacts with designs). Seven contributors have written for this catalogue, including five outside scholars with expertise on different subjects"--
Author : Kwang-chih CHANG,Kwang-chih Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674029408
A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
Author : Jessica Rawson
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066018519
Author : Li Liu,Xingcan Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521643108
"Past, present and future "The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang excavations ... in the period between 1928 and 1937 ... have laid a new foundation for the study of ancient China (Li, C. 1977: ix)." When inscribed oracle bones and enormous material remains were found through scientific excavation in Anyang in 1928, the historicity of the Shang dynasty was confirmed beyond dispute for the first time (Li, C. 1977: ix-xi). This excavation thus marked the beginning of a modern Chinese archaeology endowed with great potential to reveal much of China's ancient history.. Half a century later, Chinese archaeology had made many unprecedented discoveries which surprised the world, leading Glyn Daniel to believe that "a new awareness of the importance of China will be a key development in archaeology in the decades ahead (Daniel 1981: 211). This enthusiasm was soon shared by the Chinese archaeologists when Su Bingqi announced that "the Golden Age of Chinese archaeology is arriving (Su, B. 1994: 139--140)". In recent decades, archaeology has continuously prospered, becoming one of the most rapidly developing fields in social science in China"--
Author : Song Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521186858
Chinese Bronze Ware provides an accessible introduction to ancient China's magnificent bronze culture with full colour illustrations.
Author : Chen Shen,Royal Ontario Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015067693971
Author : Roderick B. Campbell
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770401
Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age is a synthesis of recent Chinese archaeological work on the second millennium BCE--the period associated with China's first dynasties and East Asia's first "states." With a focus on early China's great metropolitan centers in the Central Plains and their hinterlands, this work attempts to contextualize them within their wider zones of interaction from the Yangtze to the edge of the Mongolian steppe, and from the Yellow Sea to the Tibetan plateau and the Gansu corridor. Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.
Author : Robert E. Murowchick
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806126833
Anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and historians chronicle the evolution of Chinese culture and history from antiquity to present times
Author : Katheryn M. Linduff,Yan Sun,Wei Cao,Yuanqing Liu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418614
This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.
Author : Noel Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001594177T