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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

Hardcover

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Literary CriticismArchaeologyChinese History

ISBN10: 1438499000
ISBN13: 9781438499000
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Sep 1 2024
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

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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