Shang civilization
By: Kwang-chih Chang.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: China -- History -- Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C; China -- Antiquities
Description: "Up to now, however, this splendid civilization [the Shang civilization of ancient China] has been known only in fragments.  In this century specialists have been preoccupied with research on specific data,while the excavation of new finds continues.  In Shang Civilization, Kwang-chih Chang constructs a picture of the culture as a whole from the jigsaw pices of archaeological and textual evidence.  Chang treats extensively the following topics: the origins and development of Shang civilization; state government and the capital at An-yang; economic, kingship, clan, and lineage systems; the social context of its art and religion; the question of chronology; and the significance of the Shang in the ancient world and in evolutionary perspecitve."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 373-406.
Includes index.