Li Min, an archaeologist of early China, is Associate Professor of East Asian Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together the major benchmarks in the emergence of the classical tradition, particularly how legacies of prehistoric interregional interactions, state formation, urban florescence and collapse during the late third and the second millenniums BCE laid the critical foundation for the Sandai notion of history among Zhou elite. Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in various phases of history. This volume enables a new understanding on the long-term processes that enabled a classical civilization in China to take shape.
Aside from archaeologists and historians of China, this book caters to scholars and students interested in the study of social memory, state formation and comparative studies of ancient civilizations. It provides an archaeological perspective on the genealogy of knowledge and power in their spatial, temporal, technological, and formal representations.
發表於2024-12-23
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Forword 羅泰 Review 'This book opens a new window to the study of ancient Chinese history. The topic of this book is unique. It does not follow any traditional interpretations in Chinese archaeology, but a combination of processual and post-processual archa...
評分Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Wen Ding: Gaging the Weight of Political Power The Primary Symbols of Kingship in Early China The Ritualization of Power Structure of The Book 2. Frames of reference: multiple classifications of space 3. Before the Central Plains...
評分Forword 羅泰 Review 'This book opens a new window to the study of ancient Chinese history. The topic of this book is unique. It does not follow any traditional interpretations in Chinese archaeology, but a combination of processual and post-processual archa...
評分**內容其實挺豐富的;但我實在難以理解為何反覆齣現memory和wen ding橋段——和文章其他論述實在沒什麼關聯(誇張的說,把所有memory都刪掉,e.g. memory community --> community基本不影響行文)。2-7章閤起來不如乾脆齣版作“早期中國考古”;第8章想做cosmology但對文獻...
評分Forword 羅泰 Review 'This book opens a new window to the study of ancient Chinese history. The topic of this book is unique. It does not follow any traditional interpretations in Chinese archaeology, but a combination of processual and post-processual archa...
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