Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
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- Author: Paul Nicholas Vogt, Indiana University, Bloomington
- Date Published: February 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316517611
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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.
Read more- Builds its argument almost exclusively on contemporary (Western Zhou) sources
- Delves deeply into the difficult-to-read bronze inscriptions of the period
- Deploys ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, putting ancient history in terms relevant to modern readers
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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316517611
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 259 x 181 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.85kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The politics of Shang ritual under the Zhou
2. The ritual figuration of the Zhou kings
3. Ritual recognition, reward, and patronage under the Zhou kings
4. Ritual assemblies and the geopolitics of Zhou expansion
5. Reading the 'ritual reform'
6. The ethic of presence: Royal ideology through bronze inscriptions
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