Shaughnessy, Edward L.
Publisher:
Chinese University Press
Publication Date:
2017.3
Abstract:
Recent excavations of bronze artifacts from the Western Zhou dynasty (1046u771 B.C.) provide the focus for this collection of essays, which analyze the nature and patterns of lineages emerging from the tombs of ancient lords of states and historically significant individuals located throughout China, including Beijing, Shandong, Shanxi, and Gansu. The editor and his nine contributors provide detailed textual analyses of the inscriptions found on excavated bronze vessels. Their essays offer careful reconstructions of the genealogies, kinship structures, political identities, and relationship networks of leading court figures from Bronze-Age China. This rich scholarship makes important contributions to ancient Chinese archaeology by bringing to light archaeological evidence in support of new discoveries related to the chronology, warfare, and legal structure of the different realms that existed during the Western Zhou period.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Edward L. SHAUGHNESSY
The Language of the Bronze Inscriptions
Wolfgang BEHR
Shang Emblems in Their Archaeological Context
Olivier VENTURE
Inscribed Bronzes, Gift-giving and Social Networks
in the Early Western Zhou: A Case Study of the Yan Cemetery at Liulihe
Yan SUN
The Tombs of the Rulers of Peng and Relationships between Zhou and Northern Non-Zhou Lineages (Until the Early Ninth Century B.C.)
Maria KHAYUTINA
Newest Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels, 2000–2010
Edward L. SHAUGHNESSY
On the Possibility That the Two Western Zhou States Yu and Rui Were Originally Located in the Jian River Valley
CH’EN Chao-jung
A Study of the Bronze Vessels and Sacrificial Remains of the Early Qin State from Lixian, Gansu
LI Feng
Genealogical Statements on Ritual Bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period
Guolong LAI
Reflections on Literary and Devotional Aspects of Western Zhou Memorial Inscriptions
Robert ENO
Bibliography 287
Finding List of Bronze Vessels Cited 319
Index 331
Preface
Edward L. SHAUGHNESSY
The Language of the Bronze Inscriptions
Wolfgang BEHR
Shang Emblems in Their Archaeological Context
Olivier VENTURE
Inscribed Bronzes, Gift-giving and Social Networks
in the Early Western Zhou: A Case Study of the Yan Cemetery at Liulihe
Yan SUN
The Tombs of the Rulers of Peng and Relationships between Zhou and Northern Non-Zhou Lineages (Until the Early Ninth Century B.C.)
Maria KHAYUTINA
Newest Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels, 2000–2010
Edward L. SHAUGHNESSY
On the Possibility That the Two Western Zhou States Yu and Rui Were Originally Located in the Jian River Valley
CH’EN Chao-jung
A Study of the Bronze Vessels and Sacrificial Remains of the Early Qin State from Lixian, Gansu
LI Feng
Genealogical Statements on Ritual Bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period
Guolong LAI
Reflections on Literary and Devotional Aspects of Western Zhou Memorial Inscriptions
Robert ENO
Bibliography 287
Finding List of Bronze Vessels Cited 319
Index 331
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