Book contents
- Civilisation Recast
- Civilisation Recast
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Civilisation: A Critical and Constructive Review
- Chapter 2 Civilisation in This Book
- Chapter 3 Long-Term Traditions of Food, Substance, and Sacrifice: Interpreting Cultures of Ingestion in West, South, and East Asia
- Chapter 4 Neolithicities: From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond
- Chapter 5 Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa
- Chapter 6 Civilisation in China
- Chapter 7 Civilisation and the Government of ‘Civilisation’ in Contemporary China
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Civilisation in China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2019
- Civilisation Recast
- Civilisation Recast
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Civilisation: A Critical and Constructive Review
- Chapter 2 Civilisation in This Book
- Chapter 3 Long-Term Traditions of Food, Substance, and Sacrifice: Interpreting Cultures of Ingestion in West, South, and East Asia
- Chapter 4 Neolithicities: From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond
- Chapter 5 Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa
- Chapter 6 Civilisation in China
- Chapter 7 Civilisation and the Government of ‘Civilisation’ in Contemporary China
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Our historical account in this chapter will be of long-term processes in which civilisation, including its variant components as well as its spatial spread of variation, was transformed. It will be a history of re-compositions and their absorption of new elements.
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- Civilisation RecastTheoretical and Historical Perspectives, pp. 116 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019