Li Kingly Crafts

The Archaeology of Craft Production in Late Shang China
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54963-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Tang Center Series in Early China

Through a systematic analysis of the archaeological materials available in both mainland China and Taiwan, Kingly Crafts provides a detailed picture of craft production in Anyang and paves the way for a new understanding of how the Shang capital functioned as a metropolis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Yung-ti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Identifying and Defining the Issues: Craft Production, Elite Culture, and Urban Centers in Bronze Age China
2. Craft Production at the Last Shang Capital
3. A Craft of Clay and Metal: Section-mold Casting Technology and the Anyang Bronze Industry
4. Bone Technology, Production Contexts, and the Bone Workshops
5. Locating the Royal Workshop and Other Crafts
6. Long Live the King: Anyang and Its Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Li Yung-ti:
Yung-ti Li (Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard) is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Gems of Yinxu: Catalogue of Selected Artifacts from Anyang in the Institute of History and Philology, Acadeemia Sinica.Yung-ti Li is associate professor in East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Periphery and Center: Archaeological Research of Anyang and the Surrounding Regions (2016), Gems of Yinxu: Catalogue of Selected Artifacts from Anyang in the Institute of History and Philology (2009), and Archaeologia Sinica Number Four: Ta Ssu K’ung Ts’un—Settlement and Cemeteries of the Yin-Shang and Eastern Chou Periods at Anyang, Honan (2008).