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Routledge handbook of early Chinese history / edited by Paul R. Goldin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese classics--History and criticism.
- Chinese classics.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (546 pages) : 228 illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- chapter Introduction: what is early Chinese history? / Paul R. Goldin
- part PART I Chronology
- chapter 1 Main issues in the study of the Chinese Neolithic / Gideon Shelach-Lavi
- chapter 2 Of millets and wheat: diet and health on the Central Plain of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age / Kate Pechenkina
- chapter 3 The Bronze Age before the Zhou dynasty / Robert Bagley
- chapter 4 The Western Zhou state / Li Feng
- chapter 5 The age of territorial lords / Chen Shen
- chapter 6 The Qin dynasty / Charles Sanft
- chapter 7 The Former Han empire / Vincent S. Leung
- chapter 8 The Latter Han empire and the end of antiquity / Wicky W.K. Tse
- part PART II Topical studies
- chapter 9 The Old Chinese language / Axel Schuessler
- chapter 10 Early Chinese writing / Luo Xinhui; tr. Zachary Hershey and Paul R. Goldin
- chapter 11 The spirit world / Jue Guo
- chapter 12 Religious thought / Ori Tavor
- chapter 13 Political thought / Yuri Pines
- chapter 14 Food and agriculture / Roel Sterckx
- chapter 15 Warfare / Wicky W.K. Tse
- chapter 16 Currency / François Thierry
- chapter 17 Women in early China: views from the archaeological record / Anne Behnke Kinney
- chapter 18 An overview of the Qin-Han legal system from the perspective of recently unearthed documents / Kyung-ho Kim and Ming-chiu Lai
- chapter 19 Literature / Stephen Durrant
- chapter 20 Art / Wang Haicheng
- chapter 21 'Medicine' in early China / Miranda Brown
- chapter 22 Mathematics / Karine Chemla
- chapter 23 Astronomy / David Pankenier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781315773605
- OCLC:
- 1037815275
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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