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Modeling Peace : Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early China / Jie Shi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tang Center Series in Early ChinaPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : 60 photographs, maps, and line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231191029
  • 9780231549202
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 931 23
LOC classification:
  • DS797.39.M363 S55 2019
  • DS797.39.M363 S55 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps, figures, and table -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter One. The Embrace of Body and Soul -- Chapter Two. The Union of Husband and Wife -- Chapter Three. Integration of Ethnic Han and Non-Han -- PART II -- Chapter Four. The Public King -- Chapter Five. The King of Peace -- Chapter Six. The King Under the Gaze -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps, figures, and table -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter One. The Embrace of Body and Soul -- Chapter Two. The Union of Husband and Wife -- Chapter Three. Integration of Ethnic Han and Non-Han -- PART II -- Chapter Four. The Public King -- Chapter Five. The King of Peace -- Chapter Six. The King Under the Gaze -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)