The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City: The Chinese City in Comparative Perspective by Paul Wheatley - 2008-01-09

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USA.: Aldine Transaction.. 2008.. Maps and plans, starts at 225pp - 482pp, notes and bibliography, glossary, index, paperback. These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium BC. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from Nuclear America, Mesopotamia, Egypt, South-East Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. "The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City" seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. Shows the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium BC. This work describes the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of Central China.

Aldine De Gruyter, 2008. Paperback. New. bilingual edition. 378 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

Transaction Publishers , pp. 392 . Papeback. New.

Aldine De Gruyter, 2008. Paperback. New. bilingual edition. 378 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.