Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State: The Shang and Their World

ISBN-13: 9781107197619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 358 str.

Roderick Campbell

Opis

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

Recenzje

'… this book puts scholarship on the Shang on an entirely new level. It is a must-read for any scholar interested in early China or in exploring how Chinese evidence can reshape theoretical paradigms in history and the Social Sciences.' Lothar von Falkenhausen, Journal of the American Oriental Society

Spis treści

1. Being, society and world: towards an inter-ontic approach; 2. Cities, states and civilizations; 3. Central plains civilization from Erlitou to Anyang; 4. The great settlement Shang and its polity: networks, boundaries and the social economy; 5. Kinship, place and social order; 6. Violence and Shang civilization; 7. Constructing the ancestors: the social economy of burial; 8. Technologies of pacification and the world of the great settlement Shang.