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Writing and the Ancient State - Haicheng Wang

Writing and the Ancient State

Early China in Comparative Perspective

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Buch | Hardcover
427 Seiten
2014
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-02812-8 (ISBN)
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Writing and the Ancient State: Early China in Comparative Perspective is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states. It explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures in the concrete settings of six regions - Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, Central Mexico, the Andes, and China.
Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of writing to the state's legitimating project. The second part deals with the state's use of writing in administration, analyzing both textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct how the state used bookkeeping to allocate land, police its people, and extract taxes from them. The third part focuses on education, the state's system for replenishing its staff of scribe-officials. The first half of each part surveys evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, Central Mexico, and the Andes; against this background the second half examines the evidence from China. The chief aim of this book is to shed new light on early China (from the second millennium BC through the end of the Han period, ca. 220 AD) while bringing to bear the lens of cross-cultural analysis on each of the civilizations under discussion.

Wang Haicheng is an assistant professor in the School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle. His research centers on the art and archaeology of ancient China and the comparative study of early civilizations. Recent and forthcoming publications include a book chapter on the material record of the Erligang civilization, a chapter on urbanization and writing in The Cambridge World History, and papers on calligraphy and the archaeology of agency. He has lectured widely in the United States and China.

Part I. Writing and the Legitimation of the State: History as King List: 1. The Near East and the Americas; 2. China; Part II. Writing and the Wealth of the State: People and Land, Census and Land Register: 3. The Near East and the Americas; 4. China; Part III. Writing and the Perpetuation of the State: Scribal Education, Lexical Lists, and Literature: 5. The Near East and the Americas; 6. China; Part IV. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.5.2014
Zusatzinfo 26 Plates, color; 15 Maps; 20 Halftones, unspecified; 49 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 186 x 261 mm
Gewicht 1100 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Paläografie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-107-02812-4 / 1107028124
ISBN-13 978-1-107-02812-8 / 9781107028128
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