This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual can

This ook redefines the bureaucracy of Ancient Chinese society during the Western Zhou period. The analysis is based on inscriptions of royal edicts from the per

The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is

Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.

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