The Earliest China is the first archaeological book in China to translate in the dominant language of the world on the origin of Chinese ancient civilization in the Central Plains and the study of Xia dynastic culture. It shows readers all over the world the outstanding achievem…
Provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Features articles by specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology with two chapters for each time-period, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States, one on institutional history, based on b…
"In The Cambridge History of Ancient China, fourteen leading scholars provide a survey of the cultural, intellectual, political, and institutional developments of pre-imperial China (from the beginnings of civilization to 221 B.C.)."--Jacket.
La 4e de couverture indique : "This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BC…