| Contents |
The Neolithic Revolution in the North, ca. 7/6000-2000 BCE: Xinglongwa, Xinlei, Yangshao, Hongshan, and Related Cultures (Inequality/Social Complexity in Neolithic Northern China) / Andrew Womack -- The Neolithic Revolution in the South, ca. 7/6000-2000 BCE: Majiabang, Hemudu, Daxi, Songze Cultures / Xiangming Fang -- The Neolithic Jade Revolution in Northeast China / Chung Tang, Mana Hayashi Tang, Yadi Wen, and Guoxiang Liu, Yadi Wen -- The Jade Age Revisited, ca. 3500-2000 BCE / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson -- Liangzhu Culture and the Ancient City of Liangzhu / Bin Liu -- Longshan Culture Issues: Taosi and Cosmology / Nu He -- Introduction to the Xia period: Definitions, Themes, and Debate / Hong Xu -- Settlements, Buildings, and Society of the Erlitou Culture / Hong Xu and Xiang Li -- The Bronze-Casting Revolution and the Ritual Vessel Set / Hong Xu and Liu Yu -- The Spread of Erlitou Yazhang to South China and the Origin and Dispersal of Early Political States / Chung Tang, Fang Wang -- The Cultural and Historical Setting of the Shang / Jonathan Smith, Yuzhou Fan -- Early and Middle Shang Periods / Guoding Song -- Shang Belief and Art / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson -- Shang Bronze-Casting Technology and Metallurgy Issues / Changping Zhang -- Late Shang Ritual and Residential Architecture at Great City Shang, Yinxu in Anyang, Henan / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson -- Late Shang: Fu Zi [Fu Hao] and M5 at Xiaotun / Dingyun Cao -- Western Zhou Cultural and Historic Setting / Maria Khayutina -- Western Zhou Government and Society / Nicholas Vogt -- Western Zhou Rites and Mortuary Practice (Inscriptions and Texts) / Constance A. Cook -- Bronze Vessels : Style, Assemblages, and Innovations of the Western Zhou Period / Yan Sun -- Bells and Music in the Zhou / Scott Cook -- Historical Background during the Springs and Autumns Period / Yuri Pines -- Historiography, Thought, and Intellectual Development during the Springs and Autumns Period / Yuri Pines -- Cultures and Styles during the Springs and Autumns Period, / Xiaolong Wu -- The Warring States Period: Historical Background / Yuri Pines -- Iron Technology and Its Regional Development during the Eastern Zhou Period / Wengcheong Lam -- Institutional Reforms and Reformers during the Warring States Period / Yuri Pines -- Change and Continuity at the Intersection of Received History and the Material Record during the Warring States Period / Charles Sanft -- The Army, Wars, and Military Arts during the Warring States Period / Albert Galvany -- The Shi, Diplomats, and Urban Expansion during the Warring States Period / Andrew Meyer -- Confucius, Mencius, and their Daoist-Legalist Critics / Moss Roberts -- Mozi / Vincent S. Leung -- Mohism and the Evolving Notion of Jian Ai / Carine Defoort -- Chu Religion and Art / John S. Major, Elizabeth Childs-Johnson -- The Artistic Revolution during the Warring States Period / Jie Shi. |
| Abstract |
"The Oxford Handbook on Early China celebrates the research of multidisciplines ranging from history and archaeology, paleography and textual analysis to art historical and technological material. The coverage in 35 chapters is treated chronologically, beginning with the Neolithic and ending with the Springs and Autumns Period (ca 5000BCE-500BCE). Each chapter innovates in providing the most up-to-date content whether due to new archaeological discoveries or to new methodological approaches. Material is up-to-date and meticulously documented, in dealing with issues such as the origins of new military technical views of Warring States date, the historiography and political thought of the Springs and Autumns Period, new inscriptional data for Western Zhou ritual, the identity of a Shang woman warrior, Middle Shang periodization, the development of iron technology, the Jade Age issue, and the southern Neolithic revolution. This volume brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary data, which will be useful for both novice and expert in the field of Sinological studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
