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From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.

Series The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Volume 1

Edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy

Publication Date 1999

Hardback ISBN-10
0521470307

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521470308

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521470308

Overview

The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological evidence. There are also chapters on the Neolithic background, language, intellectual history, relations with Central Asia, and the debts of both the Qin and Han empires to these earlier time-periods. Although written by specialists, this Cambridge history aims to explain and describe pre-imperial China to an audience that will include scholars and students, as well as general readers without specialized knowledge of Chinese history. It can be consulted as a work of reference, or read continuously, alone or as part of The Cambridge History of China series.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy

China on the Eve of the Historical Period
by
Kwang-Chih Chang

Language and Writing
by
William G. Boltz

Shang Archaeology
by
Robert Bagley

The Shang: China's First Historical Dynasty
by
David N. Keightley

Western Zhou History
by
Edward L. Shaughnessy

Western Zhou Archaeology
by
Jessica Rawson

The Waning of the Bronze Age: Material Culture and Social Developments, 770–481 B.C.
by
Lothar von Falkenhausen

The Spring and Autumn Period
by
Cho-yun Hsu

Warring States Political History
by
Mark Edward Lewis

The Art and Architecture of the Warring States Period
by
Wu Hung

The Classical Philosophical Writings
by
David Shepherd Nivison

Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought
by
Donald Harper

The Northern Frontier in Pre–Imperial China
by
Nicola Di Cosmo

The Heritage Left to the Empires
by
Michael Loewe

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