Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age is a synthesis of recent
Chinese archaeological work on the 2nd millennium BCE--the period
associated with China's first dynasties and East Asia's first
"states." Focused on Early China's great metropolitan centers in
the Central Plains and their hinterlands, this work attempts to
contextualize them within their wider zones of interaction from the
Yangtze to the edge of the Mongolian steppe, and from the Yellow
Sea to the Tibetan plateau and the Gansu corridor. This book
critically presents the current state of Chinese archaeology on the
second millennium BCE in a way that brings to English readers the
complexity of Early Chinese culture history, the variety and
development of its urban formations, and the larger context of
Central Plains Civilization. Although employing "Chinese" and
"Bronze Age" in the title for the sake of familiarity, this work
attempts to complicate both terms by showing East Asia's divergent
developmental paths and reexamining its deep past without the
anachronistic lens of later historiography or over-simplistic
evolutionary assumptions. This, it is hoped, will contribute to a
more nuanced basis for understandings of China's Early Bronze
Age.
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