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 sou...(展开全部)

在中國史 的論述中， 西周一直被奉為儀禮的黃金時代，當時的統治者們創建了支撐封建統治的種種儀式。侯昱文（Paul Nicholas Vogt）透過對此時期最佳的史料：青銅器銘文的調查，在本書中重新發掘西周王室地緣政治變化多端的根基。他揭示西周的君主們如何調整儀禮以創造或維繫其權力，同時引進日後影響周代皇家禮儀記憶的變化，這些變動形塑了整個中國史的「治世」傳統。Vogt藉儀式與社會學理論來解釋西周史，追索近代之前中國傳統的誕生，統治王朝如何建立並維持權力，宗教與政治如何相互支持並制衡，以及古代中國人民如何製造、使用並將意義賦予藝術與 #器物 。

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

Leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the wide range of recently excavated artefacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, their combined efforts reveal the rich and multilayered interplay of text...(展开全部)

This broad-ranging examination of Chinese state and court ritual from 1000 BC to AD 1750 represents the first modern account of the subject in any language. The essays, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field, demonstrate how and why ritual has played such a fundamental and often controversial role in the practice of Chinese politics. The book will be of...(展开全部)

This book is the first in a new series - Studies in Contemporary China - edited at the Contemporary Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. This pioneering study of the origins of the Chinese Communist Party's cultural policy and the development of the Chinese model of cultural modernization traces the development of Marxist literary theory in China a...(展开全部)

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.