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Author : Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196895
This book covers Chinese archaeology from the first people to the unification of the empire, emphasizing cultural variations and interregional contact.
Author : Kwang-chih Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300037821
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Author : Li Liu,Xingcan Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Hong Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811623875
This book offers an archaeological study on China’s ancient capitals. Using abundant illustrations of ancient capital sites, it verifies the archaeological discoveries with documentary records. The author introduces the dynamical interpretation of each ancient capital to the interpretation of the entire development history of China's ancient capitals. The book points out that for most of the almost 2000 years from the earliest Erlitou (二里头)to the Ye city (邺城), there was an era where ancient capitals didn’t have outer enclosures due to factors such as the strong national power, the military and diplomatic advantage, the complexity of the residents, and the natural conditions. Thus an era of “the huge ancient capitals without guards” lasting for over 1000 years formed. The concept that “China’s ancient capitals don’t have outer enclosures” presented in the book questions the traditional view that “every settlement has walled enclosures”. Combining science with theory, it offers researchers of history a clear understanding of the development process of China’s ancient capitals.
Author : Hong Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811663871
“The Earliest China” is the first archaeological book in China to translate in the dominant language of the world on the origin of Chinese ancient civilization in the Central Plains and the study of Xia dynastic culture. It shows readers all over the world the outstanding achievements in the study of the formation of early state in China and is the first English translation monograph on the birth history of the first dynasty of Hua-Xia nation from the perspective of archaeology. With the specific archaeological data on the basis of excavations and investigation conducted in recent years, this book focuses on the interpretation of the rise and development of the ancient civilization having initially appeared in the Central Plain of China and even in the Eastern Asia. The book contents include abundant manifestations of the first flourishing civilization especially at the Erlitou site along the Yi and Luo Rivers, characteristic of ultra-large capital city, palace buildings, elaborate bronze vessels, and stratified social organization. With the combination of previously literature, the original author attempts to further explain how the earliest China, a royal-powered, and large-scaled state, emerged four thousand years ago. In this book, the analysis on a comprehensive landscape of the ancient civilization prior to the Shang Dynasty leads the point of views, distinctively from the traditional historical perspectives. With a global perspective, he further compares with other significant civilizations in the world and also points out cultural communications between the early China and other external cultures in the Bronze Age. Therefore, this book, the Earliest China of English translated version, is so appropriate to be recommended to foreign scholars and sinologists, as well as everyone who has been attracted by China’s charm overseas. With book contents, ideas, and thoughts that it contains, one can easily acknowledge the goals, methods, and reconstruction process of China’s prehistory, so English readers will acknowledge so well about the Chinese Archaeology in the Bronze Age, which does vary in many aspects from that of European and American.
Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895521
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770456
Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
Author : Guolong Lai
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295994499
"This pioneering study examines art objects and texts excavated from tombs in what was once the state of Chu, in south China, dating from the Warring States period (ca. 480-221 BCE) to the beginning of the imperial era (3rd century BCE to 1st century CE) to explore critical changes in religious beliefs and practices concerning the dead and the afterlife."
Author : Roderick B. Campbell
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199328376
The Oxford Handbook on Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE). The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from archaeology, anthropology, art history, architecture, music, and metallurgy, to literature, religion, paleography, cosmology, religion, prehistory, and history.
Author : Haicheng Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028128
Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.
Author : Xiaoneng Yang
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300081329
This introduction to more than 200 masterpieces from the period 5000 BC to the 10th century AD uncovered in China that confirms archaeologists' conclusion that Chinese civilization and art flowered throughout ancient China. 200+ color illustrations.
Author : Kwang-chih Chang,Pingfang Xu,Liancheng Lu,Xu Pingfang,Shao Wangping,Zhang Zhongpei,Wang Renxiang
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300093827
Paleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties--all these are part of the archaeological riches of China. This magnificent book surveys China's archaeological remains and in the process rewrites the early history of the world's most enduring civilization. Eminent scholars from China and America show how archaeological evidence establishes that Chinese culture did not spread from a single central area, as was long assumed, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting Neolithic cultures. Taking us to the great archaeological finds of the past hundred years--tombs, temples, palaces, cities--they shed new light on many aspects of Chinese life. With a wealth of fascinating detail and hundreds of reproductions of archaeological discoveries, including very recent ones, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Chinese antiquity and Chinese views on the formation of their own civilization.
Author : Rowan K. Flad,Pochan Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899000
An up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone.
Author : William Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822012286910
