Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China | Rare and modern books | Chang K. C.
Rare and modern books
Chang K. C.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983,
Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China | Rare and modern books | Chang K. C.
Rare and modern books
Chang K. C.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983,
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Details
- Author
- Chang K. C.
- Publishers
- Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983
- Keyword
- CINA China Chine
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
Role of urbanization, writing, shamanism, art in the rise of political authority in ancient China. Hardcover, xii + 142 pages. 47 illustr. .x, [2], 142 pp.'Chang demonstrates that political power in the Three Dynasties Period, 2200-200 BC was accumulated by particular dynastic families because they controlled what they claimed was access to the gods . . . they practised divination and shamanism . . .and with their newly invented tool of writing recorded messages of communication with the gods.'
