Paul Nicholas Vogt (Bloomington Indiana University)

Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China

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Produktbeschreibung

Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, this book traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 176mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 852g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517611
• ISBN-10: 1316517616
• Artikelnr.: 63980436

Autorenporträt

Paul Nicholas Vogt is Assistant Professor of Early Chinese History at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The politics of Shang ritual under the Zhou
2. The ritual figuration of the Zhou kings
3. Ritual recognition, reward, and patronage under the Zhou kings
4. Ritual assemblies and the geopolitics of Zhou expansion
5. Reading the 'ritual reform'
6. The ethic of presence: Royal ideology through bronze inscriptions
Appendix.