ISBN: 0812239105
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
2005 - Hardcover - 292 Seiten - 133 Illustrationen

Shang Civilization.
Students of the history and archaeology of early civilizations will find China in the Early Bronze Age the most up-to-date and wide-ranging introduction to its topic now in print. Scholars in Chinese studies will use this work as a handbook and research guide. For all readers, this volume makes fascinating reading in the formative stages of Chinese culture accessible. Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents:
List of Illustrations
A Note on Documentation
Preface
Introduction
--Geographical Setting: Macroregions
--Cultural Setting: The Longshan Age
1. Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Erlitou Culture
--The Erlitou Site--The Material World: Bronze and Jade
--Contemporary Cultures and Interaction
--The Search for the Xia
2. Foundations of the Bronze Age: The Erligang Culture
--A Network of Sites--Technologies of Power and Prestige
--Erligang Society: Material Evidence
--Erligang and the Regions
3. The Shang Kings at Anyang
--Exploration of Yinxu
--"Great Settlement Shang"
--Elite Crafts4. Shang Cult: Divination and Sacrifice
--Oracle-Bone Divination
--Ritual Spaces and Sacrifice Ritual
--Bronze Ritual Vessels
--Inscriptions and Social Relations
5. The Late Shang World
--The View from Yinxu
--Exchange Relations: Resources and Products
--Cause and Effect: Debts to Shang
Afterword: The Invention of Chinese Civilization
Suggested Readings
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Robert L. Thorp is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Art History and Archaeology at Washington University, St. Louis.