Imprints of kinship : studies of recently discovered bronze inscriptions from ancient China / edited by Edward L. Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaughnessy, Edward L., 1952- editor.

Chinese University of Hong Kong. Institute of Chinese Studies, issuing body.

University of Chicago, host institution.

Series:

ICS monograph ; no. 17.

ICS monographs series ; (17)

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Bronzes, Chinese--To 221 B.C.

Bronzes, Chinese.

Inscriptions, Chinese.

Kinship--China--History--Sources.

Kinship.

Archaeology and history--China.

Archaeology and history.

History.

China--Antiquities.

China.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Hong Kong] : The Chinese University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

Some text also in Chinese.

Contents:

Preface / Edward L. Shaughnessy

The language of the bronze inscriptions / Wolfgang Behr

Shang emblems in their archaeological context / Olivier Venture

Inscribed bronzes, gift-giving and social networks in the early western Zhou : a case study of the Yan cemetery at Liulihe / Yan Sun

The tombs of the rulers of Peng and relationships between Zhou and northern non-Zhou lineages (until the early ninth century B.C.) / Maria Khayutina

Newest sources of western Zhou history : inscribed bronze vessels, 2000-2010 / Edward L. Shaughnessy

On the possibility that the two western Zhou states Yu and Rui were originally located in the Jian River Valley / Chao-jung Ch'en

A study of the bronze vessels and sacrificial remains of the early Qin state from Lixian, Gansu / Feng Li

Genealogical statements on ritual bronzes of the Spring and Autumn period / Guolong Lai

Reflections on literary and devotional aspects of western Zhou memorial inscriptions / Robert Eno

Bibliography

Finding list of bronze vessels cited.

Notes:

At head of title: Institute of Chinese Studies. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Papers from a conference entitled "Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio and Elsewhere: An International Conference Commemorating Twenty Years of Discoveries," held at the University of Chicago, November 5-7, 2010, in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 7, 2010, through January 2, 2011. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789629966393

9629966395

OCLC:

880566060

Publisher Number:

99972579808