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 Palaeolithic
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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