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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