Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
Tides of History
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The Chinese Bronze Age and Its Discourses
This is one of the things that i find really interesting about your work, isthat you have a really well founded distrust of these kinds of centralizing, top down ways of understanding. When you have every 30 or 50 kilometers or so along llow river in his central plains, another large settlement that has a settlement hierarchy that seems to be subordinate to it, that much better fits a kind of fragmented world than one where you have an unbroken list of powerful dynasties stretching back to the gan and before that. Yes, i would agree with that statement. I think it does agree better with the archaeological record, honestly. It's also, so thereis that tradition of later attacks
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