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Anne Behnke Kinney
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Axel Schuessler
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Bronze Inscriptions
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Charles Sanft
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Early Chinese Thinkers
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Jue Guo
Karine Chemla
Kate Pechenkina
Kyung-ho Kim
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Late Shang
Li Fang Kuei
Li Feng
Liu Bang
Liu Xiu
Lower Yangtze Region
Luo Xinhui
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Ming-chiu Lai
Miranda Brown
Neolithic settlement studies
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Ori Tavor
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ritual practice analysis
Robert Bagley
Roel Sterckx
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Shang Kings
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states
Stephen Durrant
Vincent S. Leung
Wang Haicheng
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Warring States Period
Wei River
Western Zhou Period
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Young Men
Yuelu Academy
Yuri Pines
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367580667
  • Weight: 1010g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by victors and present a correspondingly anachronistic perspective.

This handbook provides an authoritative survey of the major periods of Chinese history from the Neolithic era to the fall of the Latter Han Empire and the end of antiquity (AD 220). It is the first volume to include not only a comprehensive review of political history but also detailed treatments of topics that transcend particular historical periods, such as:



  • Warfare and political thought


  • Cities and agriculture


  • Language and art


  • Medicine and mathematics


Providing a detailed analysis of the most up-to-date research by leading scholars in the field of early Chinese history, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese history, Asian archaeology, and Chinese studies in general.
About

Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His recent publications include the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (2012) and A Concise Companion to Confucius (2017).