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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sun, Yan, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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.