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Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China (Hardcover)
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Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China (Hardcover)
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In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study
of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period
(476-221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose
funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he
illuminates the connections between power and identity, and the
role of material culture in asserting and communicating both. The
author brings an interdisciplinary approach to this study. He
combines and cross-examines all available categories of evidence,
including archaeological, textual, art historical, and
epigraphical, enabling innovative interpretations and conclusions
that challenge conventional views regarding Zhongshan and ethnicity
in ancient China. Wu reveals the complex relationship between
material culture, cultural identity, and statecraft intended by the
royal patrons. He demonstrates that the Zhongshan king Cuo
constructed a hybrid cultural identity, consolidated his power, and
aimed to maintain political order at court after his death through
the buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions that he commissioned.
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