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Maps: Western Zhou capitals, Zhouyuan

  
 
       
Chronology of Western Zhou
Spring and Autumns chronological table [under construction]
 
       
Links:   Bronze vessels' images database;
Bronze inscriptions rubbings & transcriptions: CHANT, Academia Sinica;
Bronze inscriptions' translations on-line: Robert Eno's course readings		  
freshly discovered tripod in mud
 
Basic books on Western Zhou history and bronze culture:   Loewe & Shaughnessy (eds): The Cambridge History of Ancient China;
Shaughnessy: Sources of Western Zhou History;
Li Feng: Landscape and Power in Early China;
Falkenhausen: Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius;
Falkenhausen: Suspended Music;
Rawson: Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes;
So: Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes
 
Communication Warring States Workshop - e-mail network of Early China Scholars & Students