Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The politics of Shang ritual under the Zhou; 2. The ritual figuration of the Zhou kings; 3. Ritual recognition, reward, and patronage under the Zhou kings; 4. Ritual assemblies and the geopolitics of Zhou expansion; 5. Reading the 'ritual reform'; 6. The ethic of presence: Royal ideology through bronze inscriptions; Appendix.

Promotional Information

The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

About the Author

Paul Nicholas Vogt is Assistant Professor of Early Chinese History at Indiana University, Bloomington.