Paul R. Goldin
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
May 2018
Abstract:
The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artifacts. Thanks to the huge fund of new data provided by archaeology, historians are now keenly aware that traditional accounts of the period are inadequte because they are partisan, prescriptive, and incomplete. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with the rituals canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by victors, and present a correspondingly skewed and anachronistic perspective.
This handbook provides an authoritive survey of Chinese history from the Stone Age to A.D. 220. It is the first volume to include not only a comprehensive review of political history, but also detailed treatments of topics that transcend particular historical moments, such as warfare, cities, literature, and science. The contributions from doyens in the field and up and coming scholars reflect the cutting edge research that is redefining the study of Early Chinese history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: What Is Early Chinese History?, Paul R. Goldin
Part I: Chronology
1. Main Issues in the Study of the Chinese Neolithic, Gideon Shelach-Lavi
2. Of Millets and Wheat: Diet and Health on the Central Plain of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Kate Pechenkina
3. The Bronze Age before the Zhou Dynasty, Robert Bagley
4. The Western Zhou State, Li Feng
5. The Age of Territorial Lords, Chen Shen
6. The Qin Dynasty, Charles Sanft
7. The Former Han Empire, Vincent S. Leung
8. The Latter Han Empire and the End of Antiquity, Wicky W.K. Tse
Part II: Topical Studies
9. The Old Chinese Language, Axel Schuessler
10. Writing, Luo Xinhui; tr. Zachary Hershey and Paul R. Goldin
11. The Spirit World, Jue Guo
12. Religious Thought, Ori Tavor
13. Political Thought, Yuri Pines
14. Food and Agriculture, Roel Sterckx
15. Warfare, Wicky W.K. Tse
16. Currency, François Thierry
17. Women in Early China: Views from the Archaeological Record, Anne Behnke Kinney
18. An Overview of the Qin-Han Legal System from the Perspective of Recently Unearthed Documents, Kyung-ho Kim and Ming-chiu Lai
19. Literature, Stephen Durrant
20. Art, Wang Haicheng
21. "Medicine" in Early China, Miranda Brown
22. Mathematics, Karine Chemla
23. Astronomy, David Pankenier
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