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This foundational historical study examines the emergence of hierarchically structured, functionally specialised social institutions on the North China plain during the second millennium B.C. Author Paul Wheatley traces how these political and territorial organisations subsequently diffused through North and Central China across subsequent centuries. The volume equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, supported by comparative evidence. Essential for scholars of ancient Chinese urbanism, political development, and the origins of civilisation in East Asia, this Routledge publication provides rigorous analysis of how early Chinese cities developed their distinctive hierarchical and functional characteristics that would shape the region's cultural and political landscape for millennia to come.

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Volume 1 focuses on ancient China's North China plain and the emergence of hierarchically structured social institutions during the second millennium B.C.

Paul Wheatley's comparative evidence substantiates the connection between ceremonial centers in Shang China and functional stages of urban development.

The study documents how early Chinese political and territorial organisations diffused through North and Central China over subsequent centuries.

Published by Routledge, this academic text provides rigorous analysis of ancient Chinese urbanism and the origins of civilisation in East Asia.

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26 July 2017
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