Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 China on the Eve of the Historical Period
- 2 Language and Writing
- 3 Shang Archaeology
- 4 The Shang: China’s First Historical Dynasty
- 5 Western Zhou History
- 6 Western Zhou Archaeology
- 7 The Waning of the Bronze Age: Material Culture and Social Developments, 770–481 B.C.
- 8 The Spring and Autumn Period
- 9 Warring States Political History
- 10 The Art and Architecture of the Warring States Period
- 11 The Classical Philosophical Writings
- 12 Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought
- 13 The Northern Frontier in Pre–Imperial China
- 14 The Heritage Left to the Empires
- Bibliography
- Index
- Map 1 Topography of China
- Map 3.1 Archaeological sites of the Early Bronze Age
- Map 6.1 Archaeological sites of the Western Zhou period
- References
4 - The Shang: China’s First Historical Dynasty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 China on the Eve of the Historical Period
- 2 Language and Writing
- 3 Shang Archaeology
- 4 The Shang: China’s First Historical Dynasty
- 5 Western Zhou History
- 6 Western Zhou Archaeology
- 7 The Waning of the Bronze Age: Material Culture and Social Developments, 770–481 B.C.
- 8 The Spring and Autumn Period
- 9 Warring States Political History
- 10 The Art and Architecture of the Warring States Period
- 11 The Classical Philosophical Writings
- 12 Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought
- 13 The Northern Frontier in Pre–Imperial China
- 14 The Heritage Left to the Empires
- Bibliography
- Index
- Map 1 Topography of China
- Map 3.1 Archaeological sites of the Early Bronze Age
- Map 6.1 Archaeological sites of the Western Zhou period
- References
Summary
The Shang (circa 1570-1045 BC) is the first Chinese dynasty to have left written sources. Modern attempts to date the Shang employ some combination of evidence drawn from the oracle-bone inscriptions, from Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, and from Zhou accounts of varying date and reliability. To the Shang diviner, human time was concerned with the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, the birth of royal sons, the timing of royal hunts, the mobilization of conscripts for fighting, agriculture, or other public work. It was also inextricably linked-to, and conceived in terms of, religious time, which was concerned with the schedule of rituals and sacrifices. The cult center at Xiaotun was the site of numerous activities such as burials of royal ancestors, which expressed and reinforced royal claims to knowledge and authority. The Shang legacy to the dynasties that followed is seen in the continuing role of ancestor worship.
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- The Cambridge History of Ancient ChinaFrom the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC, pp. 232 - 291Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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