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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Tang center series in early China.
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Table of Contents:
- Old frontier and new challenges in the northwest
- A frontier close to home : lineage polities in the western Baoji region
- The north-central frontier : political integration and cultural homogenization
- The northeastern frontier : colonization, confrontation and collaboration
- The emerging frontier at the far west : the upper Wei and Xihan River valleys.