Kingship Ritual And Royal Ideology In Western Zhou China

Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009051199
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517616
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
ISBN 13 : 9780227171233
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Author : Albert Galvany
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493770
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Author : Min Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141451
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Memory and State Formation in Early China written by Min Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428150
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Animals Through Chinese History written by Roel Sterckx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Richard von Glahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316538850
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Economic History of China written by Richard von Glahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.

Author : Robert L. Chard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465316
Total Pages : 231 pages
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343504
Total Pages : 514 pages
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Author : Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521761628
Total Pages : 0 pages
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