Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- Scholarly conventions
- Topographical map of China
- Chronology of Western Zhou kings
- The sixty-day circle
- Introduction
- 1 Foundation of the Western Zhou state: constructing the political space
- 2 Disorder and decline: the political crisis of the Western Zhou state
- 3 Enemies at the gate: the war against the Xianyun and the northwestern frontier
- 4 The fall of the Western Zhou: partisan struggle and spatial collapse
- 5 The eastward migration: reconfiguring the Western Zhou state
- 6 The legacy of the Western Zhou
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The periphery: the Western Zhou state at its maximum geographical extent
- Appendix 2 The relationship between the Quanrong and the Xianyun
- Appendix 3 The Bamboo Annals and issues of the chronology of King You's reign
- Bibliography
- Index to inscribed bronzes
- General index
Chronology of Western Zhou kings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- Scholarly conventions
- Topographical map of China
- Chronology of Western Zhou kings
- The sixty-day circle
- Introduction
- 1 Foundation of the Western Zhou state: constructing the political space
- 2 Disorder and decline: the political crisis of the Western Zhou state
- 3 Enemies at the gate: the war against the Xianyun and the northwestern frontier
- 4 The fall of the Western Zhou: partisan struggle and spatial collapse
- 5 The eastward migration: reconfiguring the Western Zhou state
- 6 The legacy of the Western Zhou
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The periphery: the Western Zhou state at its maximum geographical extent
- Appendix 2 The relationship between the Quanrong and the Xianyun
- Appendix 3 The Bamboo Annals and issues of the chronology of King You's reign
- Bibliography
- Index to inscribed bronzes
- General index
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- Landscape and Power in Early ChinaThe Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC, pp. xviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006