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Author | : Rowan K. Flad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2013-01-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139851314 |
Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly related to prehistoric salt production. The book provides detailed discussions of recent archaeological discoveries and data from the Chengdu Plain, Three Gorges and Hubei to illustrate how these various components of regional landscape were configured across Central China.
Author | : Jacques Gernet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1996-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521497817 |
When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.
Author | : Michael Loewe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1192 |
Release | : 1999-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521470308 |
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
Author | : Constance A. Cook |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438467125 |
Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of birthing in early religion.
Author | : Ningning Dong |
Publisher | : International |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781407357928 |
This book, integrating multiple lines of evidence and their contextual information, attempts to investigate folk animal classification in central China during the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age through archaeology.
Author | : Raoul McLaughlin |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473889812 |
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan), laying claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria. Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome’s trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road, the Han carried eastern products as far as Persia and the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Though they were matched in scale, the Han surpassed its European rival in military technology. The first book to address these subjects in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.
Author | : Edwin George Pulleyblank |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : 9780860788591 |
The present set of studies by Professor Pulleyblank complements those gathered in Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China. The central concern here is the interaction between China and the non-Chinese peoples around it, in particular those of Central Asia. The volume opens with several articles contributing to the dating of events as far west of China as Afghanistan and India based on more accurately dated Chinese historical sources. Two studies deal with the prehistory of the Turks, while others are concerned with indigenous non-Chinese peoples that lived within the heartland of China during the formative years of Chinese civilization and the way in which they were absorbed into that civilization. The concluding series of papers, published between 1966 and 1999, addresses the controversial question of the coming of horsemen belonging to the Far Eastern Tocharian branch of Indo-European to Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) at the beginning of the second millennium BCE and their possible influence on the origins of the Chinese bronze age.
Author | : Rowan K. Flad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2013-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521899001 |
An up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone.
Author | : Muzhou Pu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2018-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107021170 |
This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author | : Benjamin Isadore Schwartz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674043316 |
The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture. Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts, to the evolution of early Confucianism, to Mo-Tzu, to the Taoists the legalists, the Ying-Yang school, the five classics as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture.