Contributor
Keightley, David N.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983.
Descriptionxxix, 617 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART ONE. ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE: The evolution of the Chinese environment / Robert Orr Whyte -- The domestication of plants in China: ecogeographical considerations / Hui-Lin Li -- The origins and early cultures of the cereal grains and food legumes / Te-Tzu Chang -- Swidden cultivation of foxtail millet by Taiwan aborigines: a cultural analogue of the domestication of Setaria italica in China / Wayne H. Fogg -- PART TWO: CULTURES AND PEOPLES: The Ch'ing-lien-kang culture and the Chinese neolithic / Richard Pearson, with the assistance of Shyh-Charng Lo -- Origins and development of the Yüeh coastal neolithic: a microcosm of culture change on the mainland of East Asia / William Meacham -- The relationship of the painted pottery and lung-shan cultures / Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber -- The origins of Chinese civilization: Soviet views / Karl Jettmar -- Further evidence to support the hypothesis of indigenous origins of metallurgy in ancient China / Noel Barnard -- On bronze and other metals in early China / Ursula Martius Franklin -- Origins of the Chinese people: interpretations of the recent evidence / W.W. Howells -- PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND WRITING: Recent archaeological evidence relating to the origin of Chinese characters / Cheung Kwong-Yue -- Archaic Chinese / Fang Kuei Li -- PART FOUR: TRIBE AND STATE: The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times / E.G. Pulleyblank -- Tribe to state or state to tribe in ancient China? / Morton H. Fried -- Sandai archaeology and the formation of states in ancient China: processual aspects of the origins of Chinese civilization / K.C. Chang -- The late Shang state: when, where, and what? / David N. Keightley -- Concluding remarks / K.C. Chang.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
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