Routledge handbook of early Chinese history

Weitere Verfasser: Goldin, Paul Rakita, 1972- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Umfang/Format: xix, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: What is early Chinese history? / Paul R. Goldin
  • Part I: Chronology
  • Main issues in the study of the Chinese neolithic / Gideon Shelach-Lavi
  • Of millets and wheat: diet and health on the central plain of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age / Kate Pechenkina
  • The Bronze Age before the Zhou dynasty / Robert Bagley
  • The Western Zhou state / Li Feng
  • The age of Territorial Lords / Chen Shen
  • The Qin dynasty / Charles Sanft
  • The former Han Empire / Vincent S. Leung
  • The latter Han Empire and the end of antiquity / Wicky W.K. Tse
  • Part II: Topical studies
  • The old Chinese language / Axel schuessler
  • Writing / Luo Xinhui; tr. Zachary Hershey and Paul R. Goldin
  • The spirit world / Jue Guo
  • Religious thought / Ori Tavor
  • Political thought / Yuri Pines
  • Food and agriculture / Roel Sterckx
  • Warfare / Wicky W.K. Tse
  • Currency / François Thierry
  • Women in early China: views from the archaeological record / Anne Behnke Kinney
  • An overview of the Qin-Han legal system from the perspective of recently unearthed documents / Kyung-Ho Kim and Ming-Chiu Lai
  • Literature / Stephen Durrant
  • Art / Wang Haicheng
  • "Medicine" in early China / Miranda Brown
  • Mathematics / Karine Chemla
  • Astronomy / David Pankenier.