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Early China: A Social and Cultural History

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by Li Feng


  rebel against Qin 258–259

  Xiang Yu 項羽, rebel against Qin 258

  “Hegemon King,” King of Chu 259–260

  Xianyang 咸陽, capital of Qin 240

  Xianyun 鮮于 people, threat to Western Zhou 160, 161

  Xiao 崤, battle of 181

  Xiao Yu ding 小盂鼎 267

  Xibeigang 西北崗 71–73

  sacrificial activities 71, 103

  tombs of Shang kings 71–73, 106

  Xihan 西漢 River valley 231

  Xing 邢 (Hebei), Zhou regional state 132

  pottery 134

  Xing 邢, state of 165, 180

  Xiongnu 匈奴 250

  capture of Zhang Qian 271

  defeats by Han forces 273

  fighting for five eastern states 268

  Han military strategy against 271

  Han war with 271–276

  king reduced to rank of duke 277

  origins 265

  Xiongnu 匈奴 Confederacy 268, 269

  internal struggles 275

  tribal autonomy 269

  Xiongnu 匈奴 Empire 263, 265–271

  “Xiping 熹平 Stone Classics” 313

  Xipo 西坡, Yangshao settlement 29

  Xu Pingfang 徐芳, Selected Reading 40

  Xu Shen 許慎 314

  Xunzi 荀子 214, 225

  Yan 燕, state of

  attack by Rong people 165

  border walls 186

  conquest by Qin 244–245

  enlistment of Xiongnu forces 268

  pottery 134

  state granted by Zhou king 133

  as Zhou regional state 132, 133

  Yan Wenming 嚴文明, Central Plain 19–20

  Yang Zhu 楊朱, Daoist philosopher 216–217

  Yangshao 仰韶

  discovery of culture 15, 17

  Jiangzhai 27–29

  pottery 27

  social organization of village 27–29

  society 25–30

  Xipo 29

  Zhudingyuan 鑄鼎原 29–30

  Yangshao 仰韶 Era 27

  Yangzi Delta

  Hemudu culture 27

  Liangzhu culture 34

  topography of China 2

  Zhou’s relationship with 137–138

  Yangzi River

  canal link to Li River 250

  copper deposits 63

  Yanshi 偃師 56, 57, 60–61

  architectural alignment 60

  layout 56–57

  start of construction 59

  transition from Erlitou 60–61

  Yates, Robin 239, 249

  slaves 292

  Yellow River

  flooding of Daliang 245

  occupied by Rong groups 180

  Qin conquests 235

  sites contemporary to Cishan-Peiligang 23–24

  Yihou Ze gui 宜侯夨簋, inscription 129

  Yimencun 益門村 tomb, nomadic culture 181

  Yin Weizhang 殷瑋璋 17

  Yin 陰 and Yang 陽 227, 305

  Dong Zhongshu 309–310

  Ying 應, Zhou regional state 132

  Ying Zheng 嬴政, First Emperor of China 242, 249–250, 323

  afterlife 250–256

  assassination attempt 244

  death 257–258

  early life 242

  personal character 242–243

  unification of China 244–245

  Ying Zheng 嬴政, Huangdi 249

  Yinqueshan 銀雀山, discovery of military texts 201–202

  Yinwan 尹灣 documents 286–287

  “Annual Report” 287

  county magistrates’ ranking 286

  “Curriculum Vitae of Major Officials” 287

  “Registers of Officials” 287

  Yiqu 義渠, state of, conquered by Qin 241, 268

  Yoffee, Norman, “complex society” 21

  Yong 雍, Qin capital, archeological importance 231–233

  Yu 禹, legendary founder of Xia Dynasty 48–49, 50

  Yuanjunmiao 元君廟 cemetery 28–29

  Yue 越, state of 166

  Yueyang 櫟陽, Qin capital relocated to 235

  Yunmeng 云夢 Marsh 4, 63

  Zengpiyan 甑皮岩, early pottery 24–25

  Zengzi 曾子, disciple of Confucius 174

  Zhang Changshou 張長壽, analysis of bronze vessels 80

  Zhang Qian 張騫 271–273

  Zhang Zhongpei 張忠培 37

  Zhangjiashan 張家山

  criminal cases 293–294

  Han legal statutes 289–294

  legal procedures 293–294

  Zhao 趙, cavalry 199–200

  Zhao 趙, state of, enlistment of Xiongnu forces 268

  Zhao Wan 趙綰 308

  Zheng 鄭, state of 163–164, 172

  legal codes 192

  legal statutes 176

  Zheng Xuan 鄭玄 314–315

  Zheng 鄭, Zhou royal city network 123–124, 163

  Zhengzhou 鄭州 56, 57–58

  archaeology 58–59

  bronze vessels 59

  time-frame 59–60

  transition from Erlitou 60–61

  Zhizhi 郅支, Right Shanyu 275–276

  Zhong Ding 仲丁, Shang Dynasty 60

  Zhongshan 中山, King of

  jade garment 319

  tomb 319

  Zhongshan 中山, state of 205

  Zhou 周

  1059 BC 117–120, 143

  ancestor worship 147

  battle against Guifang 267

  bronze

  art changes 152

  culture tradition preserved 202–203

  styles compared with Shang 124–125, 126

  bureaucratic administration 112

  Central Asia contact 136

  collapse in 771 BC 208

  conquests of Shang 117–123

  contact with external world 136

  expansion in Shandong peninsula 136–137

  genealogical relationship of king and regional rulers 131, 132

  geographical perimeter 135

  Heaven 143, 145, 208

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

  historical location 113–117

  Huai River region contact 138

  India contact 136

  land grants and disputes 154

  literary culture 112

  northern conquests 135

  oracle bones 118–119

  overview of dynasty 112

  people’s mixed origins 116–117

  periphery states 164–166

  philosophers 112, 207–228

  pottery assemblages 134

  pre-dynastic see pre-dynastic Zhou

  regional and metropolitan bronzes 134

  religion 143–147

  see also Heaven; Heaven and God; Heaven’s Mandate

  royal

  ancestor Buku 113

  cities 123

  city network 123–124

  clan 141

  court relocation 163

  house “nexus ancestors” 147

  lineage 142–143

  Shandong peninsula expansion 136–137

  Shang kingdom relationship 117

  temples 145–146

  territorial control expansion 121–123, 135–138

  wars in Huai River region 138

  Wei River valley people 113–117, 120, 141

  West Asia contact 136

  Yangzi delta relationship 137–138

  see also mid Western Zhou; Western Zhou; western Zhou Dynasty

  Zhou, Duke of see Duke of Zhou

  Zhou 周 elite

  changes in tomb bronze vessels 152–153

  clans and clan names 140–141

  lineages 141–143

  primary and derivative 142–143

  segmentation 142

  polygamy 141

  preservation of bronze culture 202–203

  ritual system 153

  social organization 140�
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  Zhou 周 regional states

  archaeology 132–134

  contact with Zhou king 132, 134

  distribution 131

  establishment 131

  functioning of 129–132

  inspection of 132

  King Cheng 135

  listed in Warring States period 131

  periphery states 164–166

  political control of Zhou king 132

  Rong and Di relations 180–181

  rulers’ visits to 134

  weakening of royal power 153

  Zhou 周 state 172

  border walls 186

  Zhuangzi 莊子 218–220

  activist government 219–220

  “Being Natural” or “Naturally So” 219

  Guodian texts 221

  “The Way” 218–219

  usefulness and uselessness 220

  Zhuangzi 莊子, Warring States text 218–220

  parable of butterfly dream 220

  Sophists 227

  Zhudingyuan 鑄鼎原, Yangshao settlements 29–30

  Zhukaigou 朱開溝 culture 267

  Zi Chan 子產, “Legal Statutes” 176

  Zi Si 子思, Guodian texts 222

  Zou Yan 鄒衍 305

  Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan 左傳)

  description of county 167

  Rong group of people 181

  Zuoce Ban’s 作冊般 Turtle 74, 89

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  5 Stephen F. Dale, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

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