Landscape and Power in Early China

overview

contents

List of figures viii
List of maps x
Acknowledgments xi
Scholarly conventions xiii
Topographical map of China xvi
Chronology of Western Zhou kings xvii
The sixty-day circle xviii
Initroduction 1
1. Foundation of the Western Zhou state: constructing the political space 27
2. Disorder and decline: the political crisis of the Western Zhou state 91
3. Enemies at the gate: the war against the Xianyun and the northwestern frontier 141
4. The fall of the Western Zhou: partisan struggle and spatial collapse 193
5. The eastward migration: reconfiguring the Western Zhou state 233
6. The legacy of the Western Zhou 279
Conclusion 297
Appendix 1: The periphery: the Western Zhou state at its maximum geographical extent 300
Appendix 2: The relationship between the Quanrong and the Xianyun 343
Appendix 3: The Bamboo Annals and issues of the chronology of King You's reign 347
Bibliography 355
Index to inscribed bronzes 387
General index 390