China on the Eve of the Historical Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23140490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kwang‐chih Chang (Harvard University, corresponding author), Kwang-Chih Chang |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 37-73 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Cambridge history of ancient China (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/chol9780521470308.003 |
| OpenAlex | W2497413700 |
| ISBN | 9780521470308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 305 |
This volume describes a history of ancient China, though the term China, as the name of a modern country, did not exist until recent times. The civilization that we have come to identify with present-day China began to be formed perhaps a few thousand years ago, but its geographic scope has undergone continuous change, at no other time coinciding with the present political borders. Therefore, it should be borne in mind that in this chapter the geographical stage here called China is more like a short-hand name for one part of East Asia, east of the Altai Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. This is an area where early hominids came to settle, as they did in the rest of Eurasia, furnishing the basic populations among which an agricultural way of life began some ten thousand years ago. It is only then that one begins to recognize with in this area a distinctive civilization later to be called Chinese. When we describe the beginnings of the area's human history, we cannot describe it totally separately from the rest of the human world before 10,000 years ago.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · Civilization · Geography · History of China · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Craniometric examination of Longxian and Qi Li Cun archaeological sites to assess population continuity in ancient northern China
Animal figures inspirations in contemporary Chinese art
Performing Patterns
Anthropology and Historiography
Understanding Early Civilizations
The cultural evolution of shamanism
Sociopolitical Change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State
Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
A neolitikus és bronzkori Kína és a korai államalakulás időszaka a régészeti kutatások tükrében
Culture and Reason
Altered States
The Chinese Neolithic
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Myths of the Archaic State
“Pre-Buddhist” Conceptions of Vision and Visuality in China and Their Traces in Early Reflections on Painting
Possible role of the “Holocene Event 3” on the collapse of Neolithic Cultures around the Central Plain of China
Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe, Middle Bronze Age in Eastern Europe, and the “2200 Event”
When sinologists were geologists
A dramatic climatic transition at ~4000 cal. yr BP and its cultural responses in Chinese cultural domains
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
China's search for the future
Religion, Violence, and Emotion
Archaeological Nationalism in Contemporary China and the Official Construction of Ancient Chinese History
Archaeological museums and tourism in China
Changing of crop species and agricultural practices from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Zhengluo region, China
Rethinking Erlitou
Academic freedom, political correctness, and early civilisation in Chinese archaeology
China's major Late Neolithic centres and the rise of Erlitou
State Emergence in Early China
Confucius--the secular as sacred.
Ancient Egypt
Sources of Shang history
Beyond history
The seven military classics of ancient China
The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system
Monumentality in early Chinese art and architecture
Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory
Frozen tombs of Siberia
Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs.
The pivot of the four quarters
Primate Adaptation and Evolution
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Das Tocharerproblem und die Pontische Wanderung
The Role of the Horse in Chinese History
A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology
Revolution and History
The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization
Historical Perspectives on the Introduction of the Chariot into China
Historical Notes on the Chinese World Order
The Hsiung-nu
The Chinese and Their Neighbors in Prehistoric and Early Historic Times
Tao Yüan or Tao
Inner Asia at the dawn of history
On Bronze and Other Metals in Early China
Tao, Principle, and Law
The regionalist paradigm in Chinese archaeology
Idéologie et travail
China at 1000 B.C.: A Cultural Mosaic
Shen Pu-hai
Early Ming Relations With Southeast Asia
Before Confucius
Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation
Traders and raiders on China's northern frontier
Revolution and History
News Notes
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The Origin of an Yijing Line Statement
Zhuangzi's Conversion Experience
Tale Spins
The Han Cosmic Board ( Shih )
Extra-Lineage Cult in the Shang Dynasty A Surrejoinder
Some Further Points on The Shih
The “Current” Bamboo Annals and the Date of the Zhou Conquest of Shang
Reflections on the Political Role of Spirit Mediums in Early China
Mozi and the Dates of Xia, Shang, and Zhou
The Date of the “Duo You Ding ” and its Significance
A First Reading of the Mawangdui Yijing Manuscript
The Bellows Analogy in Laozi V and Warring States Macrobiotic Hygiene
Serials on Chinese Archaeology Published in the People's Republic of China
The Shang State as Seen in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
A Summary of some Recent Wenwu and Kaogu Articles on Mawangdui Tombs Two and Three
Are They Shang Inscriptions or Zhou Inscriptions
Ju-tzu Hsi and the Genealogy of the House of Wei
Erlitou and the Search for the Xia
Zhouyuan Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
“New” Evidence on the Zhou Conquest
Qijia and Erlitou
Was There a High God Ti in Shang Religion
The Early China Forum An Examination of Whether the Charges in Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions are Questions
Cosmos, Cosmograph, and the Inquiring Poet
Astronomical Evidence for the Bamboo Annals' Chronicle of Early Xia
From Temple to Tomb
The Ganzhi as Phonograms and their Application to the Calendar
Beyond the Frontier
Astronomical Dates in Shang and Western Zhou
In Search of Danyang I
The Excavation of Tombs Number 17 and 18 and Their Significance
Art in a Ritual Context
Issues in Western Zhou Studies
Recent Developments in Chu Studies
Some Observations about Milfoil Divination Based on Shang and Zhou bagua Numerical Symbols
Once Again on the New Period of Western Zhou Oracle-Bone Research With a Brief Description of the Zhouyuan Sacrifice Inscriptions
A Textual Approach to “Zhanguo Zonghengjia Shu”
The Duke of Zhou's Retirement in the East and the Beginnings of the Ministerial-Monarch Debate in Chinese Political Philosophy
Recent Approaches to Oracle-Bone Periodization
Formulaic Structure of Chu Divinatory Bamboo Slips
On the Location of the Chu Capital in Early Chunqiu Times in Light of the Handong Incident of 701 B.C
The Chronology of Xunzi's Works
The Han Cosmic Board
A Recently Excavated Inscribed Bronze of Western Chou Date
Which Books Did the First Emperor of Ch'in Burn? on the Meaning of Pai Chia in Early Chinese Sources
Chou China
State and Society in the Hsün Tzu
The Austroasiatics in Ancient South China
A Structural Comparison of the Central Governments of Ch'u, Ch'i, and Chin
The emergence of the light, horse‐drawn chariot in the Near‐East c. 2000–1500 B.C
The Great Wall of China
The Concept of Man in Early China
Chinese Imperial City Planning
Middle Chinese
Xunzi
Chinese Mythology
Western Chou Civilization
Law and Morality in Ancient China
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |