The Cambridge History of Ancient China

The Cambridge History of Ancient China

From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC

by Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy

1148 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780521470308
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A survey of the cultural history of pre-Imperial China. Historians and archaeologists cover the Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Neolithic background, language, intellectual history, relations with central Asia, and the debts of the Qin and Han empires to these periods. There are chapters on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and on material culture.

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