The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BCMichael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural, intellectual, political, and institutional developments of the pre-imperial period. The four subperiods of Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, are described on the basis of literary and material sources and the evidence of recently found manuscripts. Chapters on the prehistoric background, the growth of language, and relations with the peoples of Central Asia provide the major context of China's achievements in the 1,500 years under review. The teachings of China's early masters are set alongside what is known of the methods of astonomers, physicians and diviners. A final chapter leads the reader forward to imperial times, as described in the volumes of The Cambridge History of China. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Calendar and Chronology | 19 |
by Edward L Shaughnessy University of Chicago | 30 |
I | 37 |
Xinglongwa Xinle and Hongshan Cultures 48 | 48 |
II | 56 |
The Ten Thousand States on the Eve of the Historical Period | 59 |
13 | 64 |
7 | 379 |
8 | 387 |
240 | 394 |
3 | 402 |
accompanying burials at Rujiazhuang Baoji Shaanxi | 420 |
tomb Mi Rujiazhuang Baoji Shannxi | 429 |
Conclusion | 446 |
Zhejiang | 456 |
Mythology Chinas Origins and the Xia Dynasty | 65 |
19 | 70 |
The Question of the Xia Dynasty | 71 |
Language and Writing | 79 |
30 | 87 |
33 | 94 |
2 | 103 |
The Chinese Script | 106 |
Chinese characters commonly viewed as pictographic | 111 |
Shang Archaeology | 127 |
The Archaeology of Bronze Metallurgy | 136 |
a set of three from Xibeigang M1001 | 156 |
Pit 2 | 217 |
38 | 225 |
Chinas First Historical Dynasty | 232 |
2 | 236 |
I | 240 |
5 | 243 |
7 | 251 |
105 | 257 |
Xiaotun Anyang | 259 |
9 | 265 |
Western Zhou History | 292 |
1 | 303 |
Da Yu ding inscription and vessel | 321 |
2 | 343 |
Western Zhou Archaeology | 352 |
and inscription c d Feng zun vessel and inscription | 363 |
3 | 369 |
Henan | 467 |
The Northern and Northeastern Regions | 525 |
2 | 529 |
The Leadership of Zheng 551 The Leadership of Qi 553 | 553 |
Interstate Meetings 556 The Leadership of Jin 558 | 560 |
Social Developments | 566 |
Economic Developments | 575 |
Intellectual Developments | 583 |
Political History | 589 |
Human Geography | 645 |
3 | 676 |
Art and Architecture for the Dead | 707 |
Furnishings | 727 |
II | 745 |
Mozi | 759 |
Yang Zhu Zi Huazi | 765 |
Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought | 813 |
4 | 815 |
5 | 853 |
The Northern Frontier in PreImperial China | 885 |
7 | 889 |
8 | 908 |
The Heritage Left to the Empires | 967 |
Bibliography | 1033 |
9 | 1051 |
1068 | |
1093 | |
1113 | |
Common terms and phrases
Ancient China Anyang archaeological Autumn period Baoji Beijing Bronze Age bronze inscriptions bronze vessels burial cemetery chapter chariot Chinese Classics Chunqiu chutu civilization Confucius culture decoration ding divination dynasty Early Chinese Eastern Erligang Erlitou evidence excavated faxian Feizi Figure fourth century B.C. Fu Hao Gong Han Feizi Heaven Henan Hubei jades jing Kaogu Kaogu xuebao King language late Western Zhou later Legge lineage Mawangdui Mencius Mozi Northern Zone pits political pottery record region Ritual Bronzes Rong royal ruler Shaanxi Shandong Shang Zhou sheng Shi ji Shi jing Spring and Autumn suggest texts third century B.C. tion tombs traditional types Wang Warring States period wenhua Western Zhou Wu Ding xian xing Xuan Xunzi Yangzi yanjiu Yellow River yin-yang Yinxu Zhao Zheng Zhengzhou zhong Zhongguo Zhuangzi Zuo zhuan