ART MYTH AND RITUAL P

ART MYTH AND RITUAL P
ISBN-10
0674029402
ISBN-13
9780674029408
Category
Social Science
Pages
156
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Kwang-chih Chang

Description

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.

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