This book explores the roles of agricultural development and
advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in
China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary
trajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering
groups, through Neolithic farming villages, and on to the Bronze
Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC.
Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution
was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and
competition, as well as by the many material technologies
introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how
ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from
simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.
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