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Chang K. C.

Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983,

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Author
Chang K. C.
Publishers
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983
Keyword
CINA China Chine
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Role of urbanization, writing, shamanism, art in the rise of political authority in ancient China. Hardcover, xii + 142 pages. 47 illustr. .x, [2], 142 pp.'Chang demonstrates that political power in the Three Dynasties Period, 2200-200 BC was accumulated by particular dynastic families because they controlled what they claimed was access to the gods . . . they practised divination and shamanism . . .and with their newly invented tool of writing recorded messages of communication with the gods.'