Defining Chu : image and reality in ancient China / edited by Constance A. Cook and John S. Major.
Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1999.Description: ix, 254 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 0824818857 (cloth : acidfree paper)
- 9780824818852 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- China -- Civilization -- To 221 B.C
- China -- Civilization -- To 221 B.C. -- Historiography
- Historiography -- China
- Historiographie -- Chine
- Chine -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. -- Historiographie
- Zhoudynastie
- Geschichte
- Geschichte 1050 v. Chr.-249 v. Chr
- Kultur
- Geschichte 700 v. Chr.-200 v. Chr
- China
- Zhou
- 931 21
- DS741.65 .D44 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-238) and index.
Preface: what does "defining Chu" mean? / Constance A. Cook and John S. Major -- Introduction / Constance A. Cook and Barry B. Blakeley -- pt. 1. Perspectives in defining Chu culture. The geography of Chu / Barry B. Blakeley ; Chu culture: an archaeological overview / Xu Shaohua ; Chu art: link between the old and new / Jenny F. So -- pt. 2. State and society. Chu society and state: image versus reality / Barry B. Blakeley ; The ideology of the Chu ruling class: ritual rhetoric and bronze inscriptions / Constance A. Cook ; Chu law in action: legal documents from tomb 2 at Baoshan / Susan Weld ; Towns and trade: cultural diversity and Chu daily life / Heather A. Peters -- pt. 3. The spirit of Chu. Characteristics of late Chu religion / John S. Major ; Monkeys, shamans, emperors, and poets: the Chuci and images of Chu during the Han dynasty / Gopal Sukhu ; Conclusion / John S. Major ; Appendix: translation of the Chu silk manuscript / Li Ling and Constance A. Cook.
Annotation This book traces the evolution of the Chu from a vassal state to its rise and fall as a great hegemonic kingdom in the Warring States period and its eventual resurgence in the early Han dynasty.
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