China in the Early Bronze Age Shang Civilization

Name: China in the Early Bronze Age Shang Civilization
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ISBN: 9780812239102

ISBN-10: 0812239105

ISBN-13: 9780812239102

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert L. Thorp

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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…

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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 11/14/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Illustrations


A Note on Documentation


Preface


Introduction



Cultural Setting: The Longshan Age



Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Erlitou Culture


The Erlitou Site


The Material World: Bronze and Jade


Contemporary Cultures and Interaction


The Search for the Xia



Foundations of the Bronze Age: The Erligang Culture


A Network of Sites


Technologies of Power and Prestige


Erligang Society: Material Evidence


Erligang and the Regions



The Shang Kings at Anyang


Exploration of Yinxu


"Great Settlement Shang"


Elite Crafts



Shang Cult: Divination and Sacrifice


Oracle-Bone Divination


Ritual Spaces and Sacrifice Ritual


Bronze Ritual Vessels


Inscriptions and Social Relations



The Late Shang World


The View from Yinxu


Exchange Relations: Resources and Products


Cause and Effect: Debts to Shang


Afterword: The Invention of Chinese Civilization


Suggested Readings


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments