Table of Contents
Volume 1: Cultures and Civilizations Reconsidered

Acknowledgements Xiaoneng Yang
Chronologies
1. Archaeological Cultures in Prehistoric China
2. Dynasties, States, and Cultures in Bronze Age China
3. Dynasties and States in Imperial China
Note to the Reader Xiaoneng Yang
Map of China
Introduction Xiaoneng Yang
Section I: Prehistoric China
Chapter 1 The Cradle of Eastern Civilization Yan Menwing
Chapter 2 The Formation of Ancient Civilization in China Zhang
Zhongpei
Chapter 3 Urban Revolution in Late Prehistoric China Xiaoneng
Yang
Chapter 4 The Hongshan Culture Complex at Niuheliang and the
Origins of Ritual in China Guo Dashun
Chapter 5 The Diffusion of Ritual Jades during the Late Longshan
Period Okamura Hidenori
Chapter 6 Incised Emblems on Ritual Jades of the Liangzhu
Culture Teng Shu-p’ing
Section II: Bronze Age China
Chapter 7 Patterns of Development among China’s Bronze
Cultures Li Boqian
Chapter 8 Issues Concerning Northern Bronze Cultures in China
Wu En
Chapter 9 A Study of the Dayangzhou Discovery Peng Shifan
Chapter 10 Shang Archaeology at the End of the Twentieth Century
Robert L. Thorp
Chapter 11 An Investigation of the Western Zhou Capital at
Luoyang Iijima Taketsugu
Chapter 12 Western Zhou Hoards and Family Histories in the
Zhouyuan Edward L. Shaugnessy
Section III: Chu and Other Southern Cultures
Map: States and Cultures during the Eastern Zhou Period
Chapter 13 Archaeology at the Three Gorges and New Research
into the Ba and Shu Cultures Yu Weichao
Chapter 14 Classical Chinese Ornament and the Origins of “Taste”
Martin Powers
Chapter 15 Bronzes of the Chu Kingdom and Chu Cultural Sphere
Li Xueqin
Chapter 16 Textiles in the Chu Kingdom of the Warring States
Period Dieter Kuhn
Chapter 17 Representations of Cosmology in Chu Textiles Peng Hao
Section IV: Early Imperial China
Chapter 18 Alexander in China? Questions for Chinese Archaeology Richard M. Barnhart
Chapter 19 Jade Suits of the Han Dynasty and Painted Pottery
Figurines of the Tang Dynasty: Reflections of
Han and Tang Aristocratic Burial Practices Yang
Hong
Chapter 20 Western Exotica in China during the Six Dynasties
Period Albert E. Dien
Chapter 21 Observations on Buddhist Stone Sculptures from the
Longxing Monastery Okada Ken
Chapter 22 The Famen Monastery and Empress Wu Roderick
Whitfield
Appendices Xiaoneng Yang, Ling-en Lu, and Jason Steuber
Bibliography
Periodicals and Newspapers Cited
Glossary of Chinese Characters

Volume 2: Major Archaeological Discoveries in Twentieth-Century China

Section I: Prehistoric China (Palaeolithic Era through Chalcolithic Period)
Section II: Bronze Age China (“Three Dynasties” or the Xia, SHang, and Zhou Period)
Section III: Early Imperial China (Qin Dynasty through Southern and Northern Dynasties Period)
Section IV: Late Imperial China (Sui Dynasty through Qing Dynasty Period)
Appendices
Index
Illustration Credits
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