Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State

Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China''s first historical dynasty and as one of the world''s primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250–1050 BCE). Roderick Campbell argues that violence was not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Any...