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The Liangzhu Culture (3,300-2,300 BC) represented the peak of
prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta.
With a wide sphere of influence centred near present-day Hangzhou
City, Liangzhu City is considered one of the earliest urban centres
in prehistoric China. Although it remains a mystery for many in the
West, Liangzhu is well known in China for its fine jade-crafting
industry; its enormous, well-structured earthen palatial compound
and recently discovered hydraulic system; and its far-flung impact
on contemporary and succeeding cultures. The archaeological ruins
of Liangzhu City were added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
List in July 2019. Liangzhu Culture contextualises Liangzhu in
broad socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and provides new,
first-hand data to help explain the development and structure of
this early urban centre. Among its many insights, the volume
reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring social power,
and how Liangzhu and its centre stand in comparison to other
prehistoric urban centres in the world. This book, the first of its
kind published in the English language, will be a useful guide to
students at all levels interested in the material culture and
social structures of prehistoric China and beyond.
The Liangzhu Culture (3,300-2,300 BC) represented the peak of
prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta.
With a wide sphere of influence centred near present-day Hangzhou
City, Liangzhu City is considered one of the earliest urban centres
in prehistoric China. Although it remains a mystery for many in the
West, Liangzhu is well known in China for its fine jade-crafting
industry; its enormous, well-structured earthen palatial compound
and recently discovered hydraulic system; and its far-flung impact
on contemporary and succeeding cultures. The archaeological ruins
of Liangzhu City were added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
List in July 2019. Liangzhu Culture contextualises Liangzhu in
broad socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and provides new,
first-hand data to help explain the development and structure of
this early urban centre. Among its many insights, the volume
reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring social power,
and how Liangzhu and its centre stand in comparison to other
prehistoric urban centres in the world. This book, the first of its
kind published in the English language, will be a useful guide to
students at all levels interested in the material culture and
social structures of prehistoric China and beyond.
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. Travel back to AD 17,
during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han
dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and
contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been
to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient
China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial:
earning enough money, coping with workplace dramas and keeping your
home in order ... although the equivalent in this era was more
about bribing inspectors, avoiding bullying from abusive watchmen
and trying to keep your house from being looted by Huns. In each
chapter we meet one of 24 citizens of this ancient culture, from
the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer and the
bronze-worker to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in
ancient China was really like.
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