Chang's pioneering text surveying Chinese prehistory and Bronze Age. Hardback, revised and enlarged edition, 1968

Archaeology of Ancient China

Politics & Social Sciences

Chang, Kwang-Chih

Archaeology

Yale Univ. Press

In the first edition of this book, published in 1963, the author presented a theory of the development of human culture in China during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. He postulated a continuous cultural development in the so-called Nuclear Area of north-central China, which ultimately spread out in all directions, and reconstructed the cultural growth of early China and its surrounding regions during the period extending from the Middle Pleistocene to the founding of the Ch'in Dynasty in 221 B.C. New archaeological data from China between 1963 and 1966 confirmed and strengthened Chang's theory at many points, and in this thoroughly revised and up-to-date edition the author presented his updated thinking on the ancient Chinese cultural development as well as added a wealth of new material and additional illustrations. Kwang-chih Chang (1931-2001), was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. He was a professor of archaeology at Harvard University, a Vice-President of the Academia Sinica and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of archaeology to the study of ancient Chinese history. He also introduced new discoveries in Chinese archaeology to western audiences by translating works from Chinese to English. He pioneered the study of Taiwanese archaeology, encouraged multi-disciplinal anthropological archaeological research, and urged archaeologists to conceive of East Asian prehistory (China, Korea, and Japan) as a pluralistic whole.

The Archaeology of Ancient China (A Yale Paperbound)

Yale University Press

Chang's pioneering text surveying Chinese prehistory and Bronze Age. The third, revised edition with catch-up coverage of developments during 60s-70s, the so-called "Cultural revolution."

The Archaeology of Ancient China (Yale Paperbound)

History

Asia

The Shang Dynasty 1523-1027 BC The Shang is the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written evidence.

Shang civilization

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Shang Civilization

Yale Univ Pr

Paleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties―all these are part of the archaeological riches of China. This magnificent book surveys China’s archaeological remains and in the process rewrites the early history of the world’s most enduring civilization.
Eminent scholars from China and America show how archaeological evidence establishes that Chinese culture did not spread from a single central area, as was long assumed, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting Neolithic cultures. Taking us to the great archaeological finds of the past hundred years―tombs, temples, palaces, cities―they shed new light on many aspects of Chinese life. With a wealth of fascinating detail and hundreds of reproductions of archaeological discoveries, including very recent ones, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Chinese antiquity and Chinese views on the formation of their own civilization.

The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective

Xu, Pingfang

CHANG, K.-C.: FENGPITOU, TAPENKENG, AND THE PREHISTORY OF TAIWAN. , 1969, 279 p. +laminas fuera texto.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Fengpitou, Tapenkeng, and the Prehistory of Taiwan (Volume 73) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

The Yale Peabody Museum

Arte, mito y ritual: El camino a la autoridad política en la China antigua

Katz editores

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