Cultural interactions during the Zhou period (c.a. 1000-350 B.C.) : a study of networks from the Suizao corridor
This thesis concerns about cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c.a. 1000-350 B.C.) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor, and discusses the underlying social and political relations between the dominant cultures and the regional ones in this particular area (the Zeng state for example), which are central to understanding the ways in which the dominant cultures joined their disparate territories into a whole. Newly excavated archaeological evidence show that there were at least three periods when people in the Suizao corridor learned about the current traditions employed elsewhere, which are: 1) Yejiashan period (from the 11<sup>th</sup> to 10<sup>th</sup> century B.C.); 2) post-Ritual Reform period (from the mid-9<sup>th</sup> to mid-7<sup>th</sup> century B.C.); and 3) Marquis Yi's period (from the mid-6<sup>th</sup> to mid-4<sup>th</sup> century B.C.). In these periods, local people in the Suizao corridor were involved in networks of enormous and constantly changing complexity, in which people, objects,
Chen, Beichen
Cultural interactions during the Zhou period (c.a. 1000-350 B.C.) : a study of networks from the Suizao corridor. This thesis concerns about cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c.a. 1000-350 B.C.) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor, and discusses the underlying social and political relations between the dominant cultures and the regional ones in this particular area (the Zeng state for example), which are central to understanding the ways in which the dominant cultures joined their disparate territories into a whole. Newly excavated archaeological evidence show that there were at least three periods when people in the Suizao corridor learned about the current traditions employed elsewhere, which are: 1) Yejiashan period (from the 11<sup>th</sup> to 10<sup>th</sup> century B.C.); 2) post-Ritual Reform period (from the mid-9<sup>th</sup> to mid-7<sup>th</sup> century B.C.); and 3) Marquis Yi's period (from the mid-6<sup>th</sup> to mid-4<sup>th</sup> century B.C.). In these periods, local people in the Suizao corridor were involved in networks of enormous and constantly changing complexity, in which people, objects,
cultural_interaction period study network corridor concern cultural_interaction period china corridor near present_day river region contemporary within_outside realm mainly exclusively concentrate bronze ritual vessel corridor discuss underlie social_political relation dominant culture regional one_particular area state example central way dominant culture join disparate territory whole newly_excavate archaeological_evidence show least_three period people corridor learn current tradition employ elsewhere period post ritual reform period period mid mid century period local_people corridor involve networks enormous constantly change complexity people object