China in antiquity

by Maspero, Henri

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Title Statements

Full title :China in antiquity / by Henri Maspero ; translated by Frank A. Kierman, Jr.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1978.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Massachusetts Press
Place of Publication:Amherst
Language:eng
Publication Date:1978.

Notes

Translation of La Chine antique.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxii, 527 pages : : maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0870231936, 9780870231933
oclc:ocm03542846
LC Classification:DS745
Dewey Decimal:951/.01

Book I: The beginnings -- The primitive Chinese world -- The dawn of history: The Yin Dynasty -- The Chou Empire (ninth and eighth centuries) -- The court and administration of Western Chou -- Book II: Social and religious life -- 1. Society in Ancient China -- The common people -- The patricians -- The princes -- The king -- 2. The ancient religion; mythology -- The gods -- The ancestors -- 3. Clergy, places of worship, and ceremonies -- The clergy -- Places of worship -- Worship -- 4. The annual cycle of religious festivals -- The agrarian cycle -- The ancestral cycle -- Ceremonies for special occasions -- 5. Religious feeling -- Book III: The hegemonies -- The territorial formation of the great principalities -- The hegemony of Ch'i -- The hegemony of Chin -- The alliance of Chin and Wu -- Book IV: The Chines world at the end of the fifth century -- The warring kingdoms -- The triumph of Ch'in (third century) -- Book V: Ancient literature and philosophy -- a. The origins of literature -- Poetry -- Prose -- 2. Confucius, Mo-tzu, and the metaphysicians -- Confucius, Mot-tzu, The metaphysicians -- 3. The Taoist school -- 4. Schools derived from Taoism: Yang-tzu and the legalists -…

Subjects

Antiquities China China -- Antiquities China -- Civilization China -- History -- To 221 B.C Chine -- Antiquités Chine -- Civilisation Chine -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1643 Chine -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 221 av. J.… Civilization History To 221 B.C