Routledge handbook of early Chinese history / edited by Paul R. Goldin.
"The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons,...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is early Chinese history? / Paul R. Goldin
- Part I: Chronology. Main issues in the study of the Chinese neolithic / Gideon Shelach-Lavi
- Of millets and wheat: diet and health on the central plain of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age / Kate Pechenkina
- The Bronze Age before the Zhou dynasty / Robert Bagley
- The Western Zhou state / Li Feng
- The age of Territorial Lords / Chen Shen
- The Qin dynasty / Charles Sanft
- The former Han Empire / Vincent S. Leung
- The latter Han Empire and the end of antiquity / Wicky W.K. Tse
- Part II: Topical studies. The old Chinese language / Axel schuessler
- Writing / Luo Xinhui; tr. Zachary Hershey and Paul R. Goldin
- The spirit world / Jue Guo
- Religious thought / Ori Tavor
- Political thought / Yuri Pines
- Food and agriculture / Roel Sterckx
- Warfare / Wicky W.K. Tse
- Currency / François Thierry
- Women in early China: views from the archaeological record / Anne Behnke Kinney
- An overview of the Qin-Han legal system from the perspective of recently unearthed documents / Kyung-Ho Kim and Ming-Chiu Lai
- Literature / Stephen Durrant
- Art / Wang Haicheng
- "Medicine" in early China / Miranda Brown
- Mathematics / Karine Chemla
- Astronomy / David Pankenier.