Saturday, May 10, 2014

Bronze Age China: Style and Material 青銅中國:形式與材質

Editor: 
Ying Wang

Publication Year: 
2010

Publisher: 
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Abstract:

"Style" in Chinese art and archaeology encompass complex meanings that beyond studies of decorative motifs, design and traditional sense on artistic style. This anthology considers function, behavior, manufacture, usage, design, material and context are expanded definition of "style". Examine style in a larger context assists in investigating the aspects of life-style, gender, social structure, labor division, and craft specialization in a society, explains the social strata, rituals, and technical traditions. Scholars of this volume come from varied backgrounds, intends to achieve an understanding of the concept of material and style of Bronze Age while current excavated data are updated everyday in this particular field.


Table of Contents:

List of Figures............................................. vii 

Introduction ............................................... xi  Ying Wang 

Part I. Style Reconsidered 

Functional Style of Ceramics from Miaopu Locus North, Anyang, 
and Changes in Social Relations..................................... 3 
Minna Franck 

Stone Tools and Style in Chinese Archaeology: Zhongba Lithic 
Artifacts and Cultural Interaction in the Yangzi River Valley .................. 49 
Gwen P. Bennett 

Part II. Cultural Interactions and Media 

Style and Social Boundary in Bronze Age Southeast China ..................... 77 
Tianlong Jiao 

Interpreting the Stylistic Variation of Early Drums from Yunnan ............ 93 
Tzehuey Chiou-Peng 

Part III. Power and Belief 

The Fu of the Shang Dynasty: Women, Wives and Warriors.................. 117 
Mara A. Duckens 

Style and Belief: A Study of the Discoveries of Sanxingdui................... 129 
Shi Jinsong 

Glossary................................................ 187 
Bibliography............................................191 
Contributors............................................211


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