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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 November 2022
      10 November 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009042741
      9781316517611
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009042741
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.85kg, 342 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

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