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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
  • Paul Nicholas Vogt
  • Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    10 November 2022
  • In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

  • 6 - The Ethic of Presence: Royal Ideology through Bronze Inscriptions

  • Paul Nicholas Vogt, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book:
    Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
    Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    10 November 2022, pp 197-247

  • Summary

    Chapter 6, “The Ethic of Presence” synthesizes the fine-grained analysis of the previous chapters with a broad-based, quantitative study of royal depictions and provides a general theory of the role of inscribed bronze vessels in the formation of the Zhou state. Drawing on theories of subject–object entanglement, the chapter captures how the ancestral cult and its accoutrements facilitated both the dissemination and the appropriation of royal ideology, helping balance interests within a shared Zhou interaction sphere.

  • Soviet inspiration in Chinese archaeology

  • Zhang Liangren
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 85 / Issue 329 / September 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 1049-1059
    Print publication:
    September 2011

  • On the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of China's Institute of Archaeology, the author looks back to its origins, and recalls a short period, now almost forgotten, of dynamic and fruitful collaboration with the archaeologists of Soviet Russia. Soviet intellectual aims in the 1950s had a profound and lasting influence on the development of Chinese archaeology, including the design of its institutions, its theoretical basis, its research agenda and its field methods. The new emphasis on ancient life beyond the elite and the study of social and economic process seems to pre-echo some of the themes of Anglo-American processual archaeology that was to follow a decade later.