Imprints of kinship : studies of recently discovered bronze inscriptions from ancient China

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Title:

Imprints of kinship : studies of recently discovered bronze inscriptions from ancient China

ICS monographs series ;

ICS monograph ;

Author:

Shaughnessy, Edward L., 1952- editor.

ISBN:

9789629966393

Publication Information:

[Hong Kong] : The Chinese University Press, [2017]

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

ICS monographs series ; (17)

ICS monograph ; no. 17.

General Note:

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)

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Bronzes, Chinese -- To 221 B.C.

Inscriptions, Chinese.

Kinship -- China -- History -- Sources.

Archaeology and history -- China.

Geographic Term:

China -- Antiquities.

Added Author:

Shaughnessy, Edward L., 1952-

Added Corporate Author:

Chinese University of Hong Kong. Institute of Chinese Studies,

University of Chicago,