Imprints of kinship : studies of recently discovered bronze inscriptions from ancient China / edited by Edward L. Shaughnessy.

Some text also in Chinese.

At head of title: Institute of Chinese Studies. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Papers from a conference entitled "Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio and Elsewhere: An International Conference Commemorating Twenty Years of Discoveries," held at the University of Chicago, November 5-7, 2010, in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 7, 2010, through January 2, 2011. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Edward L. Shaughnessy -- The language of the bronze inscriptions / Wolfgang Behr -- Shang emblems in their archaeological context / Olivier Venture -- Inscribed bronzes, gift-giving and social networks in the early western Zhou : a case study of the Yan cemetery at Liulihe / Yan Sun -- The tombs of the rulers of Peng and relationships between Zhou and northern non-Zhou lineages (until the early ninth century B.C.) / Maria Khayutina -- Newest sources of western Zhou history : inscribed bronze vessels, 2000-2010 / Edward L. Shaughnessy -- On the possibility that the two western Zhou states Yu and Rui were originally located in the Jian River Valley / Chao-jung Ch'en -- A study of the bronze vessels and sacrificial remains of the early Qin state from Lixian, Gansu / Feng Li -- Genealogical statements on ritual bronzes of the Spring and Autumn period / Guolong Lai -- Reflections on literary and devotional aspects of western Zhou memorial inscriptions / Robert Eno -- Bibliography -- Finding list of bronze vessels cited.

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Recent excavations of bronze artifacts from the Western Zhou dynasty (1046-771 B.C.) provide the focus for this collection of essays, which analyze the nature and patterns of lineages emerging from the tombs of ancient lords of states and historically significant individuals located throughout China, including Beijing, Shandong, Shanxi, and Gansu. The editor and his nine contributors provide detailed textual analyses of the inscriptions found on excavated bronze vessels. Their essays offer careful reconstructions of the genealogies, kinship structures, political identities, and relationship networks of leading court figures from Bronze-Age China. This rich scholarship makes important contributions to ancient Chinese archaeology by bringing to light archaeological evidence in support of new discoveries related to the chronology, warfare, and legal structure of the different realms that existed during the Western Zhou period.

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