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Early China: A Social and Cultural History

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by Li Feng


  Fan Ye 范曄, History of the Eastern Han Dynasty 318

  Fang 方 enemies, Shang state 109–110

  Fangcheng 方城 (“Square Wall”) 185

  farmers

  poor see peasantry

  Spring and Autumn period 171, 173–174

  Warring States period 192, 194, 198

  farming

  in 6000–4000 BC North China 24

  Neolithic communities 22–25

  see also agriculture; farmers

  Feizi 非子, secondary son of Daluo 230

  Fen 汾 River valley

  state of Jin 165

  Taosi 陶寺 32

  Feng 豐

  archaeology 124

  pottery assemblage 127

  Zhou capital 120

  Zhou royal city network 123–124, 155

  Feng 灃 River 120

  Feng Yu-lan 馮友蘭 216, 217

  Selected Reading 228

  “Fengjian” 封建, Western Zhou state 128–132, 142, 260–261

  feudalism, inaccuracy re Western Zhou state 129, 154

  “Filial and Incorrupt” 287

  Filial Piety, philosophy concept 218

  fines as punishment 293

  First Emperor of China see Ying Zheng; First Emperor of China

  Fiskesjö, Magnus, Selected Reading 40

  “Five Announcements” 158

  Five Conducts, text from Guodian 222

  “Five Elements” theory 227, 305

  cardinal directions 305

  color scheme 305

  composition of external world 305

  Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 310

  five dynasties 305

  phases in circle of time 305

  “Five Emperors” 48

  “Five Cities,” Zhou administration 123

  “Five-Family Units,” Qin 236

  five-generation rule 142, 146

  “Five Ranks,” Western Zhou 167

  floodplains in early China 2

  Florus, Roman historian 279

  forces see armies; warfare

  fortified Longshan “towns” 30–32

  “Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor” 306–307

  Franke, Herbert, selected reading 14

  frontiers, Han Empire 298, 300

  Fu Sheng 伏生 311

  Fu Su 扶蘇 258

  Fuxi 伏羲 and Nüwa 女媧 323

  Gan Ying 甘英 281

  Gansu

  partial occupation by Qin 241

  site of Qin 229, 230

  “Gatherer of Fuel for the Spirits”

  on Han social scale 291–292

  as punishment 293

  geometric patterns, mid Western Zhou bronzes 127

  Gobi Desert 265, 275

  God see High God of Shang Dynasty; High God of Zhou religion

  gold inlay in bronze 204

  Gong Fang 方 110

  Gongsun Hong 公孫泓 309

  Gongsun Long 公孫龍 227

  Good Government, philosophy concept 215, 216

  government

  mid Western Zhou 147–152

  Shang Dynasty 106–107

  Graham, A.C., Selected Reading 228

  “Grain Pounder”

  on Han social scale 291–292

  as punishment 291, 293

  Grand Chancellor (Xiang 相), Warring States period 195

  Grand Commandant, Han Empire 284

  Grand Scribe’s Records (Shiji 史記)

  composition of 316

  importance of 315–317

  motives for 316–317

  Sima Qian 司馬遷 315

  Grand Secretariat, mid Western Zhou government 147–148

  “Great Families”

  economic power in Han Empire 298

  Liu Kang 劉康, King of Jinan 濟南 297

  origins in Han Empire 297–298

  vs. peasantry in Han Empire 295–298

  Great One Gives Birth to Water (Taiyi sheng shui 太一生水) 222–224, 305

  Great Wall, Qin Empire 246, 250

  Gu Jiegang 顧頡剛, “Doubting Antiquity” movement 10, 13

  gu 觚 wine vessel 124

  Gui Fang 鬼方 110, 135

  defeat by Zhou 267

  gui 簋 tureen 124–125, 127

  Guo 虢 (Henan), Zhou regional state 132

  Guo Moruo 郭沫若, refuge in Japan 11

  Guodian 郭店 221

  philosophical texts discovery 221–222, 224

  texts re Confucianism 222

  guoren 國人, Spring and Autumn period 176

  Han 漢 Dynasty

  dynastic transition 276–279

  founding of Eastern 279

  founding of Western 257–260

  Han 漢 Empire

  administration 284–285

  “Ancient Texts” 312, 314–315

  army innovations 271

  border control 300

  bureaucracy 265, 283–285, 287

  burial sites 318–322

  cavalry 271, 273, 275

  Censor-in-Chief 284

  Central Asia 299

  Chancellor 284

  Chinese intellectual history 304

  civil and military service 288

  commanderies 285

  Confucian university curriculum 312

  Confucianization 308–311

  counties 285

  defense system 299–300

  discovery of ancient texts 311–312

  emperors’ in-laws 301–302

  end of 302

  eunuchs 301–302

  “Extending Imperial Favor” 265

  frontier

  record-keeping 300

  society 298–300

  Grand Commandant 284

  “Great Families”

  economic power 298

  origins 297–298

  vs. peasantry 295–298

  imperial kinsmen 265

  intellectual trend outline 304

  law 288–294

  legal statutes 289–294

  maternal uncles’ role 276

  military strategy against Xiongnu 271, 273

  “Modern Texts” 312–314, 315

  “Nine Ministers” 284–285

  number of officials in service 285, 287

  passports 300

  “Peace and Affinity” policy 269

  peasantry 276, 294, 295–297

  population 283, 295–297

  punishment 289, 291, 293

  Qin input 283, 308

  as rank society 283, 292–293

  regional kingdoms 262–264

  regionalism vs. centralization 260

  Roman Empire 279–282, 285–286

  salaries of officials 286

  scribes 318

  Shanyu 單于 relations 269

  social problems 295–298

  society 291–293

  succession rules 300–301

  “Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers” 283–285

  university 312, 313

  Zhang Qian 張騫 271–273

  Zhou vs. Qin ruling system 260–261, 265

  Han Fei 韓非

  “Authority” (Shi 勢) 225

  history 226

  human nature 225

  importance of punishment 225–226

  Legalism 224, 225–226

  source of legitimacy of political power 225

  “Statecraft” 225–226

  Han 漢 River, Zhou military defeat 138

  Hangzhou Bay, early rice cultivation 24

  Hann 韓, state of

  army size 199

  enlistment of Xiongnu forces 268

  Supervisor of Lawsuit 195

  Hao 鎬

  archaeology 124

  pottery assemblage 127

  Zhou capital 155

  Zhou royal city network 123–124

  Hao 好, Lady 75–78

  Harper, Donald, selected reading 324

  He Jin 何進 302

  Heaven and God, Zhou religion 145, 208<
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  Heaven (Tian 天), a Zhou discovery 143, 208

  Heaven’s Mandate 143–144, 154, 208, 209, 309

  Qin 234–235

  Hegemon, Duke Huan 桓 of Qi 165

  hegemon, institution of 166–167

  hegemony

  state of Chu 166

  state of Jin 晉 165–166

  state of Wei 魏 188

  state of Wu 吳 166

  state of Yue 越 166

  Hemudu culture in Yangzi Delta 27

  High God

  of Shang Dynasty 99–100, 143

  of Zhou religion 144–145

  historiography in China 7, 9, 10–12, 167

  Han historians re First Emperor 255–256

  “Well Field” system 190

  history

  depicted in mortuary art 322–323

  Han Fei’s view of 226

  History of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fan Ye 318

  History of the Western Han Dynasty (Hanshu 漢書)

  Ban Gu 班固 315, 318

  composition 317–318

  importance of 318

  motives for 317

  officials in service 285

  Honey, David, Selected Reading 14

  Hongshan 紅山 culture 27

  “Horizontal Alliance,” Warring States period 189

  Houma covenant tablets 174, 177, 178–179

  house remains, Jiangzhai 姜寨 27, 29

  households, Han stipulations 293

  Hu Fang 虎方 110, 138

  Hua 華 Mountain 182

  “Huai 淮 Barbarians” 121

  Huai 淮 River

  groups threatening Western Zhou 160

  wars with Zhou 138, 160

  Huan 洹 River 69, 73

  Huanbei 洹北 Shang City

  archaeological finds 81–82

  discovery 81

  size 81

  time-frame 82–83

  Huang-Lao 黃老 philosophy 306–308

  compared with Legalism 307, 308

  early Han period 306, 307

  Huangdi 皇帝 Ying Zheng 249

  Huangpi 黃陂, Zhou culture 138

  Huaxia 華夏 nation, formation of 182

  Huayuanzhuang 花園莊 oracle bones

  discovery 96–97

  distinctiveness 97–98

  importance 98

  non-royal divination 97–98

  Huhanye 呼韓邪, the Left Shanyu 275

  Hui Shi 惠施 227

  Hui, Victoria, Selected Reading 206

  human life-size bronze statue, Sanxingdui 三星堆 87

  Human Nature, philosophy concept

  Dong Zhongshu 310

  Han Fei 225

  Mencius 214–215

  human sacrifices, Shang Dynasty 102–103

  “Hundred Schools of Philosophy” 227

  Hunye 昆邪, King 273

  Huo Guang 霍光 276

  Huo Qubing 霍去病 273, 275, 276, 299

  imperial university, Han Empire 312, 313

  incision, bronze culture 203–204

  Individualism, philosophy concept 217

  inlaying gold and silver in bronze 204

  Inner Mongolia, topography of China 2

  Inter-state conferences, Spring and Autumn period 165, 166–167, 181

  iron

  introduction to China 168, 169

  weaponry 197, 199

  jade garment, King of Zhongshan 中山 319

  jade production, Longshan culture 34

  Japan, a birthplace of modern sinology 11–12

  Jaspers, Karl 209–210

  Ji 紀, state of 165

  jia 斝 wine vessel 124

  Jiahu 賈湖 24

  Jiang Yuan 姜嫄 145

  Jiangzhai 姜寨

  compared to Pingliangtai 30–31

  domestication of animals 27

  matrilineal society 27–29

  Yangshao 仰韶 village 27–29

  Jin Midi 金日禪, Xiongnu prince 276, 323

  Jin 晉 rulers, burial remains 133

  Jin 晉, state of

  counties 168, 171

  end of lineage system 172–173

  legal codes 192

  legal statutes 176

  overview 165–166

  political struggle 172–173

  standing army 199

  as Zhou regional state 132–133, 180

  Jinan 濟南, Bronze Age center 64

  Jing Ke 荊軻 244

  Jing 涇 River valley 113, 115, 161, 163

  Jixia 稷下 Academy, Mencius 214

  jue 爵 wine vessel 124

  Jüyan 居延

  defense system 299–300

  strips 299–300

  Karlgren, Bernhard, Swedish sinologist 8

  Keightley, David 12

  divination inscriptions 96

  late Shang writing 91

  Selected Reading 111

  Shang governance 106

  Shang proto-bureaucracy 147

  Kern, Martin, Selected Reading 256

  King Cheng 成 121–123

  eastern military campaigns 120, 121

  Zhou regional states 135

  King Kang 康

  expansion in Shandong peninsula 136

  temple 145–146

  Zhou geographical perimeter 135

  King Mu 穆, change in Zhou ritual tradition 153

  King Wen 文

  Book of Poetry 117

  break from Shang regime 119–120

  construction of Feng 123

  death 120

  highlights of rule 120

  recipient of Heaven’s Mandate 143, 144, 154

  King Wu 武 of Chu 168

  King Wu 武 (the Marshal King)

  battle of Muye 120–121, 123

  construction of Hao 123

  death 121

  King Xuan, 宣 political struggle with King You 161

  King You 幽

  factual end of Western Zhou Dynasty 161

  mythical end of Western Zhou Dynasty 160–161

  King Zhao 昭

  expansion in Shandong peninsula 136

  legacy 138

  middle Yangzi region warfare 138

  King Zhuangxiang 莊襄 of Qin (249–247 BC) 242

  kings

  in Shang Dynasty 104–105

  in Warring States period 196–197

  Kinney, Anne Behnke, Selected Reading 303

  Kuai 鄶, state of 163

  Kuiqiu 葵丘, inter-state conference 165, 166–167

  Kurakichi, Shiratori 白鳥庫吉 11

  Lady Hao 好 75–78

  tomb 76–77

  Lai 萊, state of 165

  Lajia 喇家, Neolithic earthquake site 38–39

  land ownership

  lineage 191

  private 191–192

  Qin 239

  land tax

  Han Empire 295

  Qin 239–240

  Warring States period 194

  language spoken in Anyang 92

  Lao-Ai 嫪毐 242

  Laozi 老子 217

  late Shang period 107–110

  Laufer, Berthold 12

  law

  codified 175, 176, 188

  Han Empire 288–294

  Qin 237

  Spring and Autumn period 175–177

  see also “Treatise of Law”

  legal statutes

  bronze inscriptions 176

  Han Empire 289–294

  pre-Qin Empire 192–193

  Qin 237

  state of Chu 176

  state of Jin 176

  state of Zheng 176

  “Legal Statutes,” Zi Chan 子產 176

  legal system

  lineage-based 175–176

  Spring and Autumn period 175–177

  Western Zhou 175–176

  Legalism

  Han Fei 224, 225–226

  and Huang-Lao philosophy 307, 308

  law and punishment 289

  philosophy concept 224–22
6, 228

  legislation, pre-Qin Empire 192–193

  Lewis, Mark Edward, Selected Reading 256, 282

  Li Cang 利倉, family tomb 320

  Li Feng, Selected Reading 139, 161, 256

  Li gui 利簋, bronze vessel 120

  Li Kui 李悝, Wei statesman 188, 191, 194

  “Canon of Law” 192, 193

  Li Si 李斯 225, 244

  “li 鬲 tripod + guan 罐 jar” 127

  Liang 梁 family massacre 302

  Liangzhu 良渚 culture

  archaic states 37

  disappearance of 34

  Yangzi Delta 34

  Linduff, Katheryn, Selected Reading 139, 161

  lineage system 141–143

  decline of 171–174, 176

  land management 191

  legal system 175–176

  primary and derivative lineages 142–143

  sacrificial bronzes 146

  segmentary 21, 29

  segmentation

  five-generation rule 142, 146

  Zhou elite 142

  temples 146–147

  warfare 197

  Lishan 驪山 complex 251–255, 258

  armory 253

  bronze chariot 251–252

  design 254

  layout 251–254

  “Retiring Hall” 251

  stable 252

  temples 252

  tombs 252

  underground river system 253–254

  Yigong 252

  literacy

  Shang Dynasty 90–92

  Western Zhou Dynasty 140, 156–160

  Zhou Dynasty 112

  Liu Bang 劉邦

  “King of Han” 259–260

  rebel against Qin 259

  Liu Bang, Emperor of Han Dynasty 260, 263, 269

  rules of succession 301

  Liu E 劉鶚 67

  Liu Kang 劉康, King of Jinan, “Great Families” 298

  Liu Li 65

  Selected Reading 40

  Liu Xiu 劉秀, Han Emperor 301

  land survey 295

  Liulihe 琉璃河 133

  Liye 里耶, writing systems evidence 249

  Loehr, Max 77

  Loess Plateau, topography of China 2

  Loewe, Michael 287

  Selected Reading 161, 256, 282, 302

  “Long Wall” (Changcheng 長城) of Qi 185

  Longqiu 龍虯 pottery shard, early writing 36–37

  Longshan 龍山 culture

  discovery 17

  influences on Erlitou culture 47–48

  pottery 30

  Longshan millennium 30

  fortified “towns” 30–32

  high-quality pottery 35

  metallurgy 36

  social stratification 34–35

  societies

  as archaic states 37

  as chiefdoms 37–40

  “town” culture 30–37

  lost-wax technology, bronze culture 203

  Lower Erligang 二里崗 Phase 58, 59

  Lower Ordos

  bronze culture 89

  contact with Shang culture 89

  migrations after collapse of 135

  Loyalty, philosophy concept 218

  Lü Buwei 呂不韋 242, 244–245

  Lu 魯, state of 164, 172

  Confucius 211

 

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