Jie Shi

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Modeling Peace: Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early ChinaHardcover, 24 March 2020

Modeling Peace: Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early China
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Part of Series
Tang Center Early China
Part of Series
Tang Center Series in Early China
Print Length
368 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Date Published
24 Mar 2020
ISBN-10
0231191022
ISBN-13
9780231191029

Description

Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent by his father, Emperor Jing (r. 157-141 BCE), to rule the Zhongshan kingdom near the northern frontier of the Western Han Empire, neighboring the nomadic Xiongnu confederation.

Modeling Peace interprets Western Han royal burial as a political ideology by closely reading the architecture and funerary content of this site and situating it in the historical context of imperialization in Western Han China. Through a study of both the archaeological materials and related received and excavated texts, Jie Shi demonstrates that the Mancheng site was planned and designed as a unity of religious, gender, and intercultural concerns. The site was built under the supervision of the future occupants of the royal tomb, who used these burials to assert their political ideology based on Huang-Lao and Confucian thought: a good ruler is one who pacifies himself, his family, and his country. This book is the first scholarly monograph on an undisturbed and fully excavated early Chinese royal burial site.

Product Details

Author:
Jie Shi
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 March 2020
Dimensions:
23.62 x 16 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
0231191022
ISBN-13:
9780231191029
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
368
Weight:
680.39 gm

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