Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Chronology of Early China
- Map
- 1 Introduction: Early China and its natural and cultural demarcations
- 2 The development of complex society in China
- 3 Erlitou and Erligang: early state expansion
- 4 Anyang and beyond: Shang and contemporary Bronze Age cultures
- 5 Cracking the secret bones: literacy and society in late Shang
- 6 The inscribed history: the Western Zhou state and its bronze vessels
- 7 The creation of paradigm: Zhou bureaucracy and social institutions
- 8 Hegemons and warriors: social transformation of the Spring and Autumn period (770–481 BC)
- 9 The age of territorial states: Warring States politics and institutions (480–221 BC)
- 10 Philosophers as statesmen: in the light of recently discovered texts
- 11 The Qin unification and Qin Empire: who were the terracotta warriors?
- 12 Expansion and political transition of the Han Empire
- 13 State and society: bureaucracy and social orders under the Han Empire
- 14 Ideological changes and their reflections in Han culture and Han art
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Chronology of Early China
- Map
- 1 Introduction: Early China and its natural and cultural demarcations
- 2 The development of complex society in China
- 3 Erlitou and Erligang: early state expansion
- 4 Anyang and beyond: Shang and contemporary Bronze Age cultures
- 5 Cracking the secret bones: literacy and society in late Shang
- 6 The inscribed history: the Western Zhou state and its bronze vessels
- 7 The creation of paradigm: Zhou bureaucracy and social institutions
- 8 Hegemons and warriors: social transformation of the Spring and Autumn period (770–481 BC)
- 9 The age of territorial states: Warring States politics and institutions (480–221 BC)
- 10 Philosophers as statesmen: in the light of recently discovered texts
- 11 The Qin unification and Qin Empire: who were the terracotta warriors?
- 12 Expansion and political transition of the Han Empire
- 13 State and society: bureaucracy and social orders under the Han Empire
- 14 Ideological changes and their reflections in Han culture and Han art
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Early ChinaA Social and Cultural History, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013