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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China by Paul Nicholas Vogt (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101316517616
ISBN-139781316517611
eBay Product ID (ePID)14057254392
Product Key Features
Book TitleKingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
Number of Pages350 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicArchaeology, Asia / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorPaul Nicholas Vogt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width7.1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2021-063043
Dewey Edition23/eng/20220103
Dewey Decimal931/.03
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisIn accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberDS747.V64 2022
