Iron and steel in ancient China / by Donald B. Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Donald B.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ; 0169-9563 Vierte Abteilung, 9. Bd.

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China, 0169-9563 ; 9. Bd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Antiquities.

China.

Iron age--China.

Iron age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 573 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.

Contents:

Preface

1 Introductory orientations: The bronze age in China (starting p. 1)

1.1 The traditional view of China's earliest history (starting p. 1)

1.2 The confrontation with archaeological material (starting p. 9)

1.3 The bronze inscriptions (starting p. 11)

1.4 The beginning of scientific archaeology in China (starting p. 12)

1.5 Neolithic and Shang archaeology (starting p. 15)

1.6 The archaeology of the Zhou period (starting p. 22)

1.7 The origin of ancient Chinese bronze technology (starting p. 28)

1.8 Ancient bronze agricultural implements (starting p. 33)

1.9 Copper smelting at Tonglushan in the sixth century B.C. (starting p. 42)

2 The earliest evidence of the use of iron in China (starting p. 51)

2.1 Arguments based on written sources (starting p. 52)

2.2 Iron artifacts in two graves in Luhe County,Jiangsu (starting p. 60)

2.3 Some other early iron artifacts of the state of Wu (starting p. 81)

2.4 Excavations at the Chu capital in Jiangling, Hubei (starting p. 85)

2.5 Chu graves in Hunan province (starting p. 86)

2.6 A Chu tomb at Xiasi in Xichuan County, Henan (starting p. 90)

2.7 The tomb of a Duke of Qin (starting p. 91)

2.8 A Qin tomb in Gansu (starting p. 94)

3 The state of Wu and the discovery of iron (starting p. 97)

3.1-3.3 The written sources (starting p. 98)

3.1 Precursors: the Yi peoples (starting p. 98)

3.2 The states of Wu and Yue (starting p. 100)

3.3 Metallurgy in Wu and Yue as seen in the written sources (starting p. 109)

3.4-3.8 Archaeological sources (starting p. 115)

3.4 The Hushu culture (starting p. 115)

3.5 The tumulus graves of Wu and Yue (starting p. 119)

3.6 The bronzes of Wu and Yue (starting p. 126)

3.7 Bronze techniques of the Wu region (starting p. 127)

3.8 Bronze agricultural implements (starting p. 136)

4 A survey of early iron artifacts (starting p. 147)

4.1 The written sources (starting p. 147)

4.2 The archaeological material (starting p. 149)

4.3 Yutaishan, a cemetery at the capital of Chu (starting p. 152)

4.4 Bronze ding-cauldrons with iron legs (starting p. 154)

4.5 Bronze-iron crossbow-bolts (starting p. 157)

4.6 Three Qin cemeteries (starting p. 161)

4.7 Iron belt-hooks (starting p. 165)

4.8 Graves of immolated slaves and their masters in Houma, Shanxi (starting p. 170)

4.9 Iron bonds (starting p. 172)

4.10 A mass grave of fallen soldiers of the state of Yan (starting p. 176)

4.11 Shafted weapons (starting p. 182)

4.12 Swords (starting p. 191)

4.13 Warring States graves excavated in Huixian County, Henan (starting p. 199)

4.14 Workshops of the First Emperor (starting p. 206)

4.15 Some iron production implements (starting p. 209)

4.16 Eastern Zhou period cemeteries near the Zhou capital in Luoyang, Henan (starting p. 237)

5 Ironworks and ironmasters in the third century B.C (starting p. 247)

5.1 Geographic distribution (starting p. 247)

5.2 The ironmasters (starting p. 250)

5.3 The ironworks (starting p. 257)

5.4 Direct state involvement in the iron industry (starting p. 259)

5.5 Appendix: The technology of iron production (starting p. 261)

6 Metallographic studies 1: Wrought iron and steel artifacts (starting p. 267)

6.1 Metallography and the iron-carbon phase system (starting p. 268)

6.2 The arts of the smith (starting p. 273)

6.3 "Hundredfold refined steel" (starting p. 282)

6.4 Identification of the raw material of wrought iron and steel artifacts (starting p. 288)

7 Metallographic studies 2: Cast iron artifacts (starting p. 335)

7.2 The metallurgy and metallography of cast iron (starting p. 339)

7.3 Malleable cast iron (starting p. 351)

8 Concluding remarks (starting p. 405)

9 Danish abstract (starting p. 413)

Tables (starting p. 427)

Appendix: Translations of metallographic examinations (starting p. 459)

References and abbreviations (starting p. 485)

Index (starting p. 553)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-552) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004484115 (electronic bk.)

9004484116 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99993924610

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