The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC

by Edward L. Shaughnessy and Michael Loewe

The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521470307
• ISBN13: 9780521470308
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1182 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"