Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 B.C.): The Archaeological Evidence

摘要

[...] even if we dispense with evolutionism, and with those tendentious but still ubiquitous ideological interpretations that assign a mystical driving force to a Chinese essence before any China even existed, and even if we-still in keeping with the book's successful overall strategy-resist the temptations of relying on theories of state power found in the Classical texts, the fact remains that the Chinese empires did emerge out of the state formations of the Zhou era.