Many worlds under one heaven : material culture, identity, and power in the northern frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045-771 BCE /

In the mid-eleventh century BCE, the Zhou, a small polity active in the Wei River valley, overthrew the Shang, a dynastic power that had dominated much of northern and central China for the past few centuries. This victory made the Zhou a dynastic power in their own right, and they would extend the...

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