张光直(1931－2001年)，男，原籍台湾，在北京出生。当代著名的美籍华裔学者，人类学、考古学家。2001年因帕金森氏症在美国麻塞诸塞州去世。

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second ...(展开全部)

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages, and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second ...(展开全部)

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second ...(展开全部)

张光直 台湾大学考古人类学系及美国哈佛大学人类学系研究生院毕业，著有专书十余种，论文百余篇，其中由北京三联书店出版的有《中国青铜时代》、《中国青铜时代》（二集）。历年选任为台湾中央研究院、美国科学院及美国文理科学院院士，曾担任美国哈佛大学、耶鲁大学教授与台湾中央研究院副院长。

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state fo...(展开全部)