Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Geographic and Environmental Background
- Chapter 2 Before Cultivation:Human Origins and the Incipient Development of Human Culture in China
- Chapter 3 The Transition to Food Production: Variability and Processes
- Chapter 4 The Development of Agriculture and Sedentary Life in North China
- Chapter 5 The Shift to Agriculture and Sedentism in Central and South China
- Chapter 6 The Emergence and Development of Sociopolitical Complexity
- Chapter 7 Stepping into History
- Chapter 8 The Shang Dynasty: The Emergence of the State in China
- Chapter 9 Regional Variation and Interregional Interactions during the Bronze Age: “Center and Periphery” or “Interaction Spheres”?
- Chapter 10 The Societies and Cultures of the Zhou Period: Processes of Globalization and the Genesis of Local Identities
- Chapter 11 The Son of Heaven and the Creation of a Bureaucratic Empire
- By Way of a Personal Conclusion: The Jade Dragon as an Emblem of Local and National Identity
- Notes
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Geographic and Environmental Background
- Chapter 2 Before Cultivation:Human Origins and the Incipient Development of Human Culture in China
- Chapter 3 The Transition to Food Production: Variability and Processes
- Chapter 4 The Development of Agriculture and Sedentary Life in North China
- Chapter 5 The Shift to Agriculture and Sedentism in Central and South China
- Chapter 6 The Emergence and Development of Sociopolitical Complexity
- Chapter 7 Stepping into History
- Chapter 8 The Shang Dynasty: The Emergence of the State in China
- Chapter 9 Regional Variation and Interregional Interactions during the Bronze Age: “Center and Periphery” or “Interaction Spheres”?
- Chapter 10 The Societies and Cultures of the Zhou Period: Processes of Globalization and the Genesis of Local Identities
- Chapter 11 The Son of Heaven and the Creation of a Bureaucratic Empire
- By Way of a Personal Conclusion: The Jade Dragon as an Emblem of Local and National Identity
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- The Archaeology of Early ChinaFrom Prehistory to the Han Dynasty, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015