The Origins of Chinese civilization / edited by David N. Keightley ; with contributions by Noel Barnard ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographies and index.

The evolution of the Chinese government t/ Robert Orr Whyte -- The domestication of plants in China : ecogeographical considerations / Hui-Lin Li -- The origins and early cultures of the cereal grains and good legumes / Te-Tzu Chang -- Swidden cultivation of foxtail millet by Taiwan aborigines : a cultural analogue of the domestication of Setaria italic in China / Wayne H. Foog -- The Ch'ing-lien-kang culture and the Chinese Neolithic / Richard Pearson and Shyn-Charng Lo -- Origins and development of the Yueh Coastal Neolithic : a microcosm of culture change on the mainland of East Asia / William Meacham -- The relationship of the painted pottery and Lung-shan cultures / Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber -- The origin of Chinese civilization : Soviet views / Karl Jettmar -- Further evidence to support the hypothesis of indigenous origins of metallurgy in ancient China / Noel Bernard -- On bronze and other meals in early China / Ursula Martius Franklin -- Origins of the Chinese people : interpretations of the recent evidence / W. W. Howells -- Recent archaeological evidence relating to the origin of Chinese characters / Cheung Kwong-Yue -- Archaic Chinese / Fang Kuei Li -- The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times / E. G. Pulleyblank -- Tribe to state or state to tribe in ancient China? / Morton H. Fried -- Sandai archaeology and the formation of states in ancient China : processual aspects of the origins of Chinese civilization / K. C. Chang -- The late Shang state : when, where, and what? / David N. Keightley -- Concluding remarks / K. C. Chang.