内容简介

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.

作品目录

Introduction 1

Ch. 1. The reorganization of the elite in late Western Zhou (ca. 850 BC) 29

Ch. 2. Distinctions of rank and gender within territorial ruling lineages (ca. 1000-650 BC) 74

Ch. 3. A north Chinese community (ca. 800-450 BC) : demography and ranking 127

Ch. 4. Clan differences within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-500 BC) 169

Ch. 5. Ethnic contrasts within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-350 BC) 204

Ch. 6. An expanding society (ca. 1050-250 BC) 244

Ch. 7. The Eastern Zhou religious transformation (ca. 600-221 BC) 293

Ch. 8. The separation of the higher and lower elites (ca. 750-221 BC) 326

Ch. 9. The merging of the lower elite with the commoner classes (ca. 600-221 BC) 370

Conclusion 401

References for tables 19-30 421

Bibliography 426

List of Archaeological sites 508

General index and glossary 517