Part I.
1. Establishing the Zhou tradition: Memorial feasts and the rise of eulogy to Zhou kings
Memorial feasts and founder sacrifices
Zhou founder kings: a case of King Wen, the ancestor, and King Wu, the son
Creating the nation
Divine models
Ancestors and the hunt
Summary
2. Kings, ancestors, and the transmission of De: Transitions and setting the pattern
The founder king as earth deity
Summary
3. Song of heirs: Royal inscriptions: the king as heir
Regional heirs control the sacred narrative
Lengthy bronze narratives and the role of the king
Summary
4. Eulogy and the rise of the musical performance: Training the Xiaozi
The ancient eulogy or praise song
Eulogy in ritual performance
Summary
Part II. The Zhou way after the Zhou:
5. Transitions and bronze inscriptions: Archaic rings
Western
Northern
Southern
Northeastern
Summary
6. The new old Zhou way: Notes on the transmission of odes and A song of King Wen
Summary
7. From ancestor worship to inner cultivation: Notes on the bamboo text the lute dance of Zhou Gong
Musical performance and textual production
Reexamining the great preface
Inner feeling, outer decorum
The odes as Dao: cultivating the intention
Summary
8. Coming-of-age rituals: Performing the capping ritual
Ritual and music as a method for “completion”
Coming-of-age narratives in the eastern Zhou
Remnants of promotion narratives in warring states texts
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