Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- V. East Asia
- 2.1 East Asia: DNA
- 2.2 Early Palaeolithic of Central and Northern Asia
- 2.3 The Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
- 2.4 Early Sedentism in East Asia: From Late Palaeolithic to Early Agricultural Societies in Insular East Asia
- 2.5 The Neolithic of Northern and Central China
- 2.6 The Neolithic of Southern China
- 2.7 Early Complex Societies in Northern China
- 2.8 Early Complex Societies in Southern China
- 2.9 China from Zhou to Tang
- 2.10 Complex Society in Korea and Japan
- 2.11 The Later Prehistory of the Russian Far East
- 2.12 East Asia: Languages
- VI. The Americas
- Volume 3
- Index
- References
2.9 - China from Zhou to Tang
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- V. East Asia
- 2.1 East Asia: DNA
- 2.2 Early Palaeolithic of Central and Northern Asia
- 2.3 The Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
- 2.4 Early Sedentism in East Asia: From Late Palaeolithic to Early Agricultural Societies in Insular East Asia
- 2.5 The Neolithic of Northern and Central China
- 2.6 The Neolithic of Southern China
- 2.7 Early Complex Societies in Northern China
- 2.8 Early Complex Societies in Southern China
- 2.9 China from Zhou to Tang
- 2.10 Complex Society in Korea and Japan
- 2.11 The Later Prehistory of the Russian Far East
- 2.12 East Asia: Languages
- VI. The Americas
- Volume 3
- Index
- References
Summary
The Warring States Period, or the Zhanguo Period, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE. It is nominally considered to be the second part of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, following the Spring and Autumn Period, although the Zhou Dynasty itself ended in 256 BCE, thirty-five years earlier than the end of the Warring States Period. The enormous effort Qin Shi Huangdi expended on his imperial tomb during his lifetime has partly been verified by archaeological excavation of more than 7000 life-size soldiers and horses, placed in pits close to the emperor's actual tomb. Geographically, the Tang state area reached its greatest size after the Qin Dynasty. The early Tang Dynasty was, on the one hand, a dynasty with a continuous stability; but it was also open to transitions at various levels of political or cultural life.
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