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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China (Hardcover)
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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China (Hardcover)
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In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been
lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the
ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In
this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the
vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation
of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for
this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted
ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that
affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped
the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using
ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt
traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a
ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and
politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient
peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.
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