Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China

Xiaolong Wu, Hanover College, INXiaolong Wu is Associate Professor of Art History at Hanover College, Indiana. He received his BA in Chinese archaeology from Beijing University and his PhD in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interest focuses on the material culture of late Bronze Age China and its interactions with the Eurasian Steppe, and issues related to ethnicity, hybridity, agency, and political power.

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Xiaolong Wu

页数:260

出版时间:2017-4-10

价格:USD 110.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781107134027

图书标签:物质文化考古历史先秦考古学研究海外汉学海外中国研究中国史东周中山国

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In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476–221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he illuminates the connections between power and identity, and the role of material culture in asserting and communicating both. The author brings an interdisciplinary approach to this study. He combines and cross-examines all available categories of evidence, including archaeological, textual, art historical, and epigraphical, enabling innovative interpretations and conclusions that challenge conventional views regarding Zhongshan and ethnicity in ancient China. Wu reveals the complex relationship between material culture, cultural identity, and statecraft intended by the royal patrons. He demonstrates that the Zhongshan king Cuo constructed a hybrid cultural identity, consolidated his power, and aimed to maintain political order at court after his death through the buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions that he commissioned.

Presents new, innovative ways of interpreting Zhongshan remains and texts that take into account agency, statecraft, and identity construction

Takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines archaeological, art historical, historical, and epigraphical analysis

Provides focused, detailed and in-depth analysis of all available evidence

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去年拿到这本书，居然到现在要写作业才开始看，只看了一点自己需要的章节：没有特别印象深刻的地方。不过中山国真是奇妙，东西都非常non-Chinese，草原风格很明显。

去年拿到这本书，居然到现在要写作业才开始看，只看了一点自己需要的章节：没有特别印象深刻的地方。不过中山国真是奇妙，东西都非常non-Chinese，草原风格很明显。

去年拿到这本书，居然到现在要写作业才开始看，只看了一点自己需要的章节：没有特别印象深刻的地方。不过中山国真是奇妙，东西都非常non-Chinese，草原风格很明显。

去年拿到这本书，居然到现在要写作业才开始看，只看了一点自己需要的章节：没有特别印象深刻的地方。不过中山国真是奇妙，东西都非常non-Chinese，草原风格很明显。