(Ebook) The Origins of Chinese Civilization 1st Edition by David Keightley ISBN 9780520310797 0520310797

(Ebook) The Origins of Chinese Civilization 1st Edition by David Keightley ISBN 9780520310797 0520310797

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ISBN 10: 0520310797

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Author: David N. Keightley 

The seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, botany, climatology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethnography, epigraphy, linguistics, metallurgy, and political and social history. Readers interested in such topics as the origin of rice or millet agriculture, the origin of writing, the nature of the trie, and the processes of state formation will find much value here. They will find, too, major hypotheses about teh cultural importance of ecogeographical zones in China, Neolithic interaction between the east coast and Central Plains, the remarkable homogeneity of early Chinese crania, and the links between the Hsia, Shang, and Chou dynasties. Relying on recently published archaeological evidence and the insights gained from carbon-14 and thermoluminescent datings, the authors provide original and significant interpretations of the nature of Chinese civilization in its formative stage and the processes by which civilizations form. Since there is little doubt that the complex of culture traits which defines Chinese civilization in the second and fist millennia B.C. developed from a Chinese Neolithic stage, the origin of the Chinese civilization is worth studying not only in its own right but as an instance of the indigenous development of civilizations in general. This volume will appeal to all who are intersted in the genesis of civilization and the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age; it summarizes that state of present knowledge about China and suggests research strategies and hypotheses for the future. Contributors:Noel BarnardK. C. ChangTe-Tzu ChangCheung Kwong-YueWayne H. FoggUrsula Martius FranklinMorton H. FriedW. W. HowellsLouisa G. Fitzgerald HuberKarl JettmarDavid N. KeightleyFang Kuei LiHui-Lin LiWilliam MeachamRichard PearsonE.G. PulleyblankRobert Orr Whyte This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Table of contents: 

PART ONE: Environment and Agriculture

1. The Evolution of the Chinese Environment

   • Significance of Climate

   • Paleoclimate One

   • Plate Tectonics and Orogeny

   • Paleoclimate Two

   • Biogeographical Evolution

   • Crop Genetic Resources and Evolving Vegetation

   • Conclusion

   • References

2. The Domestication of Plants in China: Ecogeographical Considerations

   • The Natural Environment

   • The North China Belt

   • The South China Belt

   • The South Asia Belt

   • Conclusion

   • References

3. The Origins and Early Cultures of the Cereal Grains and Food Legumes

   • Millets

   • Rice

   • Barley and Wheat

   • Other Cereals

   • The Soybean and Other Legumes

   • Perspectives for Future Studies

   • References

4. Swidden Cultivation of Foxtail Millet by Taiwan Aborigines: A Cultural Analogue of the Domestication of Setaria italica in China

   • Field Research

   • Analysis

   • References

PART TWO: Cultures and Peoples

5. The Ch’ing‑lien‑kang Culture and the Chinese Neolithic

   • Chinese Neolithic Cultures

   • Description of the Ch’ing‑lien‑kang Culture

   • Northern and Southern Variants

   • Significance

   • References

6. Origins and Development of the Yüeh Coastal Neolithic

   • The Emergence of the Neolithic in Coastal South China

   • Regional Horizons in Coastal South China

   • Implications for Protohistory

   • References

7. The Relationship of the Painted Pottery and Lung‑shan Cultures

   • The Chung Yüan Painted Pottery

   • The Lung‑shan Tradition: A Definition

   • Correlation between Eastern Lung‑shan and Chung Yüan

   • References

8. The Origins of Chinese Civilization: Soviet Views

   • Paleoanthropology

   • Archaeology

   • Epigraphy and Linguistics

   • Paleoethnology

   • Ethnogenetic Interpretation of Historical Texts

   • Conclusion

   • References

9. Further Evidence for Indigenous Origins of Metallurgy in Ancient China

   • Meteoric Iron

   • Pseudogranulation

   • Splay‑Blade Axes

   • The “Germ of an Idea” and Its Reception

   • The Hinge

   • Conclusion

   • References

10. On Bronze and Other Metals in Early China

    • Perspectives

    • Metal as a Class of Materials

    • Metal as a Derived Material

    • Metal‑Winning plus Metal‑Fabrication Equals Metallurgy

    • Metal Technology: A Question of Scale

    • Bronze Production in Early China

    • Mining in Early China

    • Appendix I: A Metallurgical Puzzle

    • Appendix II: Diodorus of Sicily on Gold Mining in Nubia

    • References

11. Origins of the Chinese People: Interpretations of the Recent Evidence

    • The Late Paleolithic

    • The Neolithic

    • The Bronze Age

    • Recent Variation and Relationships

    • Conclusion

    • References

PART THREE: Language and Writing

12. Recent Archaeological Evidence Relating to the Origin of Chinese Characters

    • Early Pottery Marks: Field Surveys (1928–1977)

    • Recently Excavated Pottery Inscriptions: Chronological Relationships

    • Geographical Distribution of Inscribed Pottery

    • References

13. Archaic Chinese

    • The Phonological System

    • The Vocalic System

    • The Consonant System

    • The Archaic Chinese Tones

    • The Archaic Syllabic Structure

    • Proto‑Chinese and Sino‑Tibetan

    • References

PART FOUR: Tribe and State

14. The Chinese and Their Neighbors in Prehistoric and Early Historic Times

    • The Chinese

    • Tibeto‑Burman

    • Miao‑Yao

    • Tai and Related Languages

    • Austronesian (Faro‑Polynesian)

    • Austro‑Asiatic (Mon‑Khmer)

    • Barbarians of the Northeast

    • Northern Ti

    • Hsiung‑nu

    • Proto‑Mongols and Proto‑Turks

    • Indo‑Europeans

    • Conclusion

    • References

15. Tribe to State or State to Tribe in Ancient China?

    • The Notion of Tribe

    • Evolution of the State: A Tribeless Scenario

    • “Tribe” in Chinese Usage

    • Tribe to State vs. State to Tribe

    • References

16. Sandai Archaeology and the Formation of States in Ancient China

    • Sandai Interrelationship in Written History

    • Archaeological Manifestations

    • Process of Sandai State Formation

    • References

17. The Late Shang State: When, Where, and What?

    • The Shang State: When

    • The Shang State: Where

    • Mapping the Shang State

    • The Shang State: What

    • The Geography of the Shang State

    • Conclusions: The Incipient Dynastic State

    • Concluding Remarks

18. Concluding Remarks

    • Biogeographical Environment and Plant Domestication

    • Physical Characteristics of the Earliest Chinese

    • The Linguistic Picture

    • Archaeological Entities

    • Origins of Chinese Bronze Metallurgy and Writing

    • The Societal Framework for the Formation of Chinese Civilization

    • References

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