Introduction Is there no capital city without a city wall? The different
designations and meanings of the term "city" The city and the city
siteThe city and the capital city The city and the outer city The palace
city and the imperial city How did everyone say Yu Weichao: the Eastern
Zhou and the two Han dynasties as one big stage Xu Pingfang: the epochal
change brought by the capitals from the Qin and Han dynastiesYang Kuan:
the two Han dynasty capitals without outer city Liu Qingzhu: The form of
the Qin and Han dynasty capitals and the time lag-theory About the shape
of the outer city From the literature perspective: large city without a
city wall
I. The time after the Wei and Jin dynasties - City wall and grid-pattern
The Wei-Jin period to the Sui and Tang dynasties Song, Yuan, Ming and
Qing dynasties
II. The capital cities of the Qin and Han dynasties and their environs -
The domineering empires Chang'an in the Western Han dynasty: the
distinction between inner and outer cityInner or outer city There is no
enclosed area outside of the inner city Orientation and axis Tracing the
origin of design ideasThe Qin dynasty capital Xianyang: with or without
city wall The Eastern Han dynasty city of Luoyang: the last capital
without fortification
III. Times of Unrest - The city of the Eastern Zhou dynasty The Inner
and outer city of the Spring and Autumn period Qufu - Capital of the Lu
State Linzi - Capital of the Qi State Xinzheng - Capital of the Zheng
State The Inner and outer city standing side by side in the Warring
States period Linze - Capital of the Qi State Handan - Capital of the
Zhao State Qufu - Capital of the Lu State Xinzheng - Capital of the Han
State The lower capital of the state of Yan Eastern Zhou dynasty
Wangcheng and Chengzhou Ji'nan - Capital of the Chu State The Qin state
capital city Yong
IV. Three Generations of Capitals The remains of unfortified cities from
the Spring and Autumn period Eastern Zhou dynasty capital Wangcheng
Xintian - Capital of the Jin stateJi'nan - Capital of the Chu State
Yong - Capital of the Qin State Western Zhou Dynasty: Within the borders
of the four foreign peoples Zhouyuan Fenghao Luoyi Qufu and Linzi Yinxu:
the era of cities without walls Huanbei City (square moat (fang
hao))Huannan Dayi Erligang: Two Hundred Years of Royal Inner and Outer
City Zhengzhou City Xiaoshuangqiao Yanshi city Capital cities in the
periphery Erlitou: The beginning of unfortified cities Erlitou From a
city wall to ring moat Conclusion: The Great Central Axis
Postscript