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Modeling peace : royal tombs and political ideology in early China /

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 two juxtaposed burials, of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occup...

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Main Authors: Shi, Jie, 1979- (Author)
Published: Columbia University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Tang center series in early China
Subjects:
Social archaeology > China > Baoding Shi.
Ethnoarchaeology > China > Baoding Shi.
Archaeology and history > China > Baoding Shi.
Antiquities.
Archaeology and history.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Kings and rulers > Tombs.
Politics and Government.
Social archaeology.
Mancheng Qu (Baoding Shi, China) > Antiquities.
Baoding Shi (China) > Antiquities.
China > Kings and rulers > Tombs.
China > Politics and government > 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
China > Mancheng Qu. > Mancheng Qu.
China.
China > Baoding Shi.
Summary: 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 two 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 royal tomb occupants, 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.
Carrier Form: ix, 358 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, form ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-344) and index.
ISBN: 9780231191029
0231191022
Index Number: DS797
CLC: K878.8
Call Number: K878.8/S555
Contents: The Embrace of Body and Soul -- The Union of Husband and Wife -- Integration between Ethnic Han and Non-Han -- The Public King -- The King of Peace -- The King Under the Gaze.

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