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Book SynopsisThe Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. This book deals with Erligang culture.
Trade Review"This book will stand as a milestone in the study of early Chinese bronzes."--Jianjun Mei, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Table of ContentsContributors 7 Foreword and Acknowledgments 9 Preface 11 INTRODUCTION 1. Erligang Bronzes and the Discovery of the Erligang Culture 19 Robert Bagley 2. Erligang: A Perspective from Panlongcheng Zhang Changping 51 DEFINING THE ERLIGANG CIVILIZATION 3. China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Expansion 67 Wang Haicheng 4. Civilizations and Empires: A Perspective on Erligang from Early Egypt 99 John Baines 5. Erligang: A Tale of Two "Civilizations" 121 Roderick Campbell 6. The Politics of Maps, Pottery, and Archaeology: Hidden Assumptions in Chinese Bronze Age Archaeology 137 Yung-ti Li ERLIGANG AND THE SOUTH 7. Erligang and the Southern Bronze Industries 151 Kyle Steinke 8. Erligang Contacts South of the Yangzi River: The Expansion of Interaction Networks in Early Bronze Age Hunan 173 Robin McNeal PARTING THOUGHTS 9. Bronzes and the History of Chinese Art 191 Maggie Bickford References 213 Index 226 Image Credits 235
