Yan Sun (Professor of Art History)

Many Worlds Under One Heaven

Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045-771 BCE

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Produktbeschreibung

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under the Western Zhou. Examining tombs, bronze inscriptions, and other artifacts, Yan Sun challenges the Zhou-centered view with a frontier-focused perspective that highlights the roles of multiple actors.

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Produktdetails

• Tang Center Series in Early China
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 242mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198424
• ISBN-10: 0231198426
• Artikelnr.: 60694638

Autorenporträt

Yan Sun is a professor of art history at Gettysburg College. She is coauthor of Ancient China and Its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 BCE (2018) and coeditor of Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects (2018), among other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Reign Dates of Western Zhou Kings
Introduction
1. An Old Frontier and New Challenges in the Northwest
2. A Frontier Close to Home: Lineage Polities in the Western Baoji Region
3. The North-Central Frontier: Political Integration and Cultural
Homogenization
4. The Northeastern Frontier: Colonization, Confrontation, and
Collaboration
5. The Emerging Frontier in the Far West: The Upper Wei and Xihan River
Valleys
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index