Landscape and Power in Early China by Li Feng

By Li Feng

The Bronze Age country of the Western Zhou represented a ground-breaking interval in chinese language tradition and civilization. This booklet addresses the complicated courting among geography and political strength in the context of the trouble and fall of that nation among 1045SH771 B.C. Drawing at the most recent archaeological discoveries, the publication exhibits how inscribed bronze vessels can be utilized to bare alterations within the political house of the interval, and explores literary and geographical facts to provide a coherent realizing of the Bronze Age earlier.

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257), “Zhanyang” (no. 264), and “Shaomin” (no. 265); those found in the “Minor Odes” include: “Jie nanshan” (no. 191), “Zhengyue” (no. 192), “Yu wuzheng” (no. 194), and “Shiyue zhi jiao” (no. 193). Whether the events and individuals mentioned in the “Shiyue zhi jiao” should be dated to King You or King Li has long been a subject of controversy, but I believe that after the discovery of the Han Huangfu ding ( JC: 2548), Tang Lan has demonstrated convincingly that they must be from the reign of King You.

There are more than twenty poems in the two sections relevant to the present study, that can be divided under three historical subjects. 21 The third group of poems, scattered in both the “Minor” and “Major” sections, speaks 16 17 18 19 20 21 These five chapters are: “Kanggao” , “Jiugao” , “Shaogao” , “Luogao” , and “Dagao” . ), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide (Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China, 1993), pp. 379–80. See Michael Nylan, The Five Confucian Classics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp.

The chapter concludes that the foundation of China’s empire must be sought in the political and cultural practice of the Western Zhou state. Appendix 1 continues to explore the periphery of the Western Zhou state in three regions: the far east, the south, and the north. By studying the archaeological evidence together with inscriptional and textual records relevant to each region, it provides an informed delimitation of the geographical extent of the Western Zhou state. It also shows how continuous expansion and the presence of Zhou power were conditioned by the geographical reality of these regions.

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