Acknowledgements
Chronology
List of maps and illustrations
Introduction by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski
Shang and Western Zhou (1250-771 BC):
Robert Eno - Shang state religion and the pantheon of the oracle texts
Alain Thote - Shang and Zhou funeral practices: interpretation of material vestiges
Martin Kern - Bronze inscriptions, the Shijing and the Shangshu: the evolution of the ancestral sacrifice during the Western Zhou
Kominami Ichiro - Rituals for the Earth
Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC):
Constance Cook - Ancestor worship during the Eastern Zhou
Mu-chou Poo - Ritual and ritual texts in early China
Yuri Pines - Chinese history writing between the sacred and the secular
Marc Kalinowski - Diviners and astrologers under the Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC): transmitted texts and recent archaeological discoveries
Fu-shih Lin - The image and status of shamans in ancient China
Romain Graziani - The subject and the sovereign: exploring the self in early Chinese self-cultivation
Mark Csikszentmihàlyi - Ethics and self-cultivation practice in early China
Mark Edward Lewis - The mythology of early China
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann - Ritual practices for constructing terrestrial space (Warring States-early Han)
Jean Levi - The rite, the norm, and the Dao: philosophy of sacrifice and transcendence of power in ancient China
Qin and Han (221 BC-220 AD):
Michael Puett - Combining the ghosts and spirits, centering the realm: mortuary ritual and political organization in the ritual compendia of early China
Michael Nylan - Classics without canonization, learning and authority in Qin (221-210 BC) and Han (206 BC-AD 220)
Marianne Bujard - State and local cults in Han religion
Joachim Gentz - Language of Heaven, exegetical skepticism and the reinsertion of religious concepts in the Gongyang tradition
Roel Sterckx - The economics of religion in Warring States and early imperial China
Liu Tseng-kue -, Taboos: an aspect of belief in the Qin and Han
Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens - Death and the dead: practices and images in the Qin and Han
Ken Brashier - Eastern Han commemorative stelae: laying the cornerstones of public memory
Grégoire Espesset - Eastern Han religious mass movements and the early Daoist church
Li Jianmin - They shall expel demons: etiology, the medical canon and the transformation of medical techniques before the Tang
List of authors
Bibliography
Index
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