Talk:Zhou dynasty

message: I know everything's still a mess and much of the history coming out of the PRC is politicized, but we really ought to
:A. Keep the sections here as a fairly brief and highly-linked outline.
:B. Have somewhere else to put much more stuff.
For example, this article  even if not necessarily correct in all its particulars  should have its outline of the scholarly disagreements, consensuses, and concerns mentioned somewhere, even though here isn't really the place. Right now, we've got a branch out at Western Zhou but not Eastern Zhou and the closest thing to covering their early history is the stub I put up at Duchy of Zhou... but there really should be something like a History of the Zhou Dynasty article to tie it all together... — LlywelynII 12:56, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The usual periodization is Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States.  Does anyone treat Eastern Zhou as a topic?  Similarly the Western Zhou is so different from the later periods that it doesn't make much sense to treat the Zhou dynasty as a unified topic, even if it is nominally a single dynasty.  I'd favour moving most of the content to those three articles and having this one summarize them.  Kanguole 16:17, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: History Section: Expansion, but somewhere else...

message: This article needs to be seriously "de-crapped"  I remember when it used to be good.  here are some issues:
*why is the map a PNG file? this is something that should be SVG
*what is the policy going to be on use of Pinyin Hanzi and English in the article for example, certain pinyin words become anglizcied when the dicritics are dropped from the vowels.  which ones should be allowed to do so?  should they be put in italics?
*Chinese studies often suffers from poor or inaccurate translation for example: civil servant, scholar, gentleman, burecrat, ect.  all used interchangably for describing "Shi" when in fact not every scholar was a civil servant.  lets be very precise and consistant in our translations
*Zhou dynasty could mean different things to an archeologist, a historian, a sinologist, an urban planner, ect. we should have a section for each one.
*This article is related to Shang and Xia dynasty articles and the state formation of china in general all three should have identical layouts and section topics and be extensively cross linked.
*If you are including Hanzi they should be cross linked to wiktionary so people can validate translations.
I propose the sections for xia/shang/zhou should be: Etemology, Ethnicity, Political History, Archeology
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gurdjieff (talk • contribs) 05:38, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe a uniform treatment of the Xia, Shang and Zhou would make sense.  They are radically different, not least in the quality of evidence we have for them and the extent to which we can connect traditional accounts with archaeology.  Even the Zhou period is too diverse for a unified treatment.  We'd be better off building up the Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period articles and trimming this one to a brief overview.  Kanguole 23:32, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improve Article 

message: Current version of this page says that the beginning year of Zhou is BC 1046. However, Korean historian Min Hooki says in his article A Survery and Criticism on the Date of the King Wu's Conquest of Shang" and "the Chronology of the Late Shang" in the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project(하상주단대공정 중의 '무왕극상년'과 '상대 후기 연대학'에 대한 검토와 비판) there are many different theories assuming the starting year of Zhou. The earlist year among them is BC 1130, and the last year is BC 1018. The BC 1046 is just one of these theories, supported by Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project. This project caused severe conflict between scholars participating this project and the others, including Western scholars and even minor Chineses. David Nivison and Edward Shaughnessy don't accept this result and claimed BC 1045 (see The Cambridge History of Ancient China). I think there is no orthodox theory for estimating Zhou chronology, even the result of Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project is accepted as orthodox in china. Therefore, I think that description of the starting year of Zhou should not point a certain year.--Synparaorthodox (talk) 11:05, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: We should certainly flag the uncertainty of Chinese dates before 841 BC, but modern scholars seem to have converged on shorter chronologies with mid-11th century dates for the conquest.  No-one seems to advance the traditional date of 1130 any more.  I think putting "c." in front of 1046 would be sufficient.  Kanguole 12:06, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting year of Zhou 

message: There's a move request to decapitalize "dynasty" in the Chinese dynasty articles, as in Han Dynasty → Han dynasty. For more information and to give your input, see . --Cold Season (talk) 17:52, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move request to decapitalize all Chinese dynasty articles 

message: Title Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 Vols) Early Chinese Religion Editors John Lagerwey, Marc Kalinowski Publisher BRILL, 2008 , 9789004168350
http://books.google.com/books?id=Idhyr1hqS0kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 19:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source on Zhou religion 

message: Deleted false IPA spelling.  Can fix later. Lollipop (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ipa 

message: I could use an expert (or other opinions) rather than handling this myself, but in "culture and society", I am going to put agriuculture closer to the top, as a subsection of fengjian (well-field system). I would put mandate of heaven at the top of this section, as I am given to understand that it emerged very early, even before fengjian.FourLights (talk) 22:38, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  order of chapters 

message: "The capital was moved eastward to Chengzhou": shouldn't that be Luoyang? Languagehat (talk) 14:59, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Chengzhou was located close to todays Luoyang, but the move of capital 771 BC was actually to Wangcheng. Best regards, --Bairuilong (talk) 03:02, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern capital 

message: As a Chinese history student, I can understand most part of this article. However, this article looks like a collection of a bunch of data. So there is a "Chinese wiki" you guys can refer to. Here is the link "https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%91%A8%E6%9C%9D/1575". 
Yliu480 (talk) 00:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Evaluation  

message: According to Wolfram Eberhard, a German linguist and racialist, the Chou dynasty is of Turkic origin. The use of iron began in China during the Chou dynasty, and according to many, Chinese bronze ware making reached its peak during this period. AzərbaycanTürküAze (talk) 07:09, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Eberhard's view is a fringe position. While it might be possible that the Zhou were related to Turkic groups, there is literally no way of proving that today. It also has nothing to do with their ability to work metal (which they adapted from the Shang, not their western or northern neighbors). Applodion (talk) 09:45, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible to be Turkic 

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Loads more on early history here, although probably most of it is a better fit for Predynastic Zhou. — LlywelynII
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has more on the Shang and Zhou's relationships with the south in the area that later became Chu, Wu, and Yue. — LlywelynII 03:45, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion