Kingly Crafts: The Archaeology of Craft Production in Late Shang China

by Yung-Ti Li

The site of Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1200 to 1000 BCE, is one of the most important sources of knowledge about craft production in Bronze Age China. Excavations and research of the settlement over the past ninety years demonstrate both the advanced level of Shang craft workers and the scale and capacity of the craft industries of the time. However, materials unearthed in Anyang by different expeditions have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231192045
• ISBN13: 9780231192040
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"