Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China
Author: Max Loehr
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 192
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Author: Max Loehr
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0870992260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.
Author: Kwang-chih CHANG
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0674029402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
Author: Alan Lufkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-08-19
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0520337840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer than 300. River pollution has also hit hard at fish populations, which within recent decades have diminished by 80 percent. One species, the San Joaquin River spring chinook, became extinct soon after World War II. Other species are nearly extinct. This volume documents the reasons for the decline; it also offers practical suggestions about how the decline might be reversed. The California salmon story is presented here in human perspective: its broad historical, economic, cultural, and political facets, as well as the biological, are all treated. No comparable work has ever been published, although some of the material has been available for half a century. In the richly varied contributions in this volume, the reader meets Indians whose history is tied to the history of the salmon and steelhead upon which they depend; commercial trollers who see their livelihood and unique lifestyle vanishing; biologists and fishery managers alarmed at the loss of river water habitable by fish and at the effects of hatcheries on native gene pools. Women who fish, conservation-minded citizens, foresters, economists, outdoor writers, engineers, politicians, city youth restoring streambeds—all are represented. Their lives—and the lives of all Californians—are affected in myriad ways by the fate of California's salmon and steelhead. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Author: Min Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-24
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 1107141451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.
Author: Richard von Glahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-07
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ISBN-13: 1316538850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0870992309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes and interprets the spectacular works of art presented in the exhibition lent to 5 American museums by China. Not only describes some of the most important recent archaeological discoveries in China, but provides information about 1500 year Chinese.
Author: Christian Deydier
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9782955416006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne P. Underhill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 1118325788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Chinese Archaeology is an unprecedented, new resource on the current state of archaeological research in one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It presents a collection of readings from leading archaeologists in China and elsewhere that provide diverse interpretations about social and economic organization during the Neolithic period and early Bronze Age. An unprecedented collection of original contributions from international scholars and collaborative archaeological teams conducting research on the Chinese mainland and Taiwan Makes available for the first time in English the work of leading archaeologists in China Provides a comprehensive view of research in key geographic regions of China Offers diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding China’s past, beginning with the era of established agricultural villages from c. 7000 B.C. through to the end of the Shang dynastic period in c. 1045 B.C.