Cultural Interactions during the Zhou period (c. 1000-350 BC): A study of networks from the Suizao corridor...

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Beichen Chen

Cultural Interactions during the Zhou period (c. 1000-350 BC)

A study of networks from the Suizao corridor

Beichen Chen

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Archaeopress
31 January 2019

History; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Archaeology by period & region

'Cultural Interactions during the Zhou Period (c. 1000-350 BC): A study of networks from the Suizao corridor' examines cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c. 1000- 350 BCE) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It concentrates mainly, but not exclusively, on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor, and discusses the underlying social and political relations between the dominant cultures and the regional ones in this particular area (the Zeng state for example), which are central to understanding the ways in which the dominant cultures joined their disparate territories into a whole. Newly excavated archaeological evidence show that there were at least three periods when people in the corridor learned about the current traditions employed elsewhere, which are: 1) Yejiashan period (from the 11th to the 10th century BCE); 2) post-Ritual Reform period (from the mid-9th to the mid-7th century BCE); and 3) Marquis Yi's period (from the mid- 6th to the mid-4th century BCE). In these periods, local people were involved in networks of enormous and constantly changing complexity, in which people, objects, practices, and ideas were mixed together through inter-regional contacts. The choices of local people in adopting foreign materials and ideas from either the dominant cultures or other places depended heavily on the subjective view of their social identity, which can be constructed, maintained, or transited to adapt to different social and political environments.

By: Beichen Chen
Imprint: Archaeopress
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 290mm, Width: 205mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 555g
ISBN: 9781789690545
ISBN 10: 1789690544
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 31 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

BEICHEN CHEN is a lecturer at Capital Normal University, Beijing. He graduated from Merton College, University of Oxford in 2017 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology, supervised by Professor Dame Jessica Rawson, and Professor Mark Pollard. His academic interest lies in the study of China's bronze ritual vessels from the second to the first millennium BCE, including change of ritual performance, trade and exchange network, and development of casting technology. He is also working on digital methods and practices in Archaeology, Museology, and Cultural Heritage.