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      • Li Liu, Stanford University, California, Xingcan Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      30 April 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139015301
      9780521643108
      9780521644327
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015301
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.2kg, 498 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 498 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge World Archaeology
      Subjects:
      Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    Series:
    Cambridge World Archaeology
    Subjects:
    Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.

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