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Ancestors, kings, and the Dao
\"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Death in ancient China : the tale of one man's journey
This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts.
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Ancient China : a history
\"Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region -- the geographical area that eventually became known as China -- from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as \"China\"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and those studying Chinese Culture and Society more generally.\" -- Publisher's description
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Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context
This interdisciplinary collaboration is the first in-depth study of Chinese Buddhist dice divination. It situates the tenth-century \"Divination of Maheśvara,\" within a deep Chinese backstory while simultaneously tracking its specific method of divination across the Silk Road to ancient India.
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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of
newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been
revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from
China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history,
paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to
show how these fascinating finds change our understanding of
China's past. Organized in a chronological progression from the
Shang to Han periods, and treating bone, bronze, and bamboo-strip
artifacts in turn, the book treats a wide breadth of topics, from
the status of owls in Shang religion to the Zhou court's economic
interest in managing salt resources, and from the conceptual
evolution of de 德 in Spring and Autumn covenants to the
interplay between materiality and text in Han scribal primers.
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo exemplifies the exciting energy
and sense of discovery inspired by these sources in recent years,
while surveying the latest debates and developments shaping early
China as a field.
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