Book contents
- Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
- Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Politics of Shang Ritual under the Zhou
- 2 The Ritual Figuration of the Zhou Kings
- 3 Ritual Recognition, Reward, and Patronage under the Zhou Kings
- 4 Ritual Assemblies and the Geopolitics of Zhou Expansion
- 5 Reading the “Ritual Reform”
- 6 The Ethic of Presence: Royal Ideology through Bronze Inscriptions
- Conclusion Zhou Ritual and Early Chinese History
- Appendix (Tables)
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Inscription Index
2 - The Ritual Figuration of the Zhou Kings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
Book contents
- Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
- Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Politics of Shang Ritual under the Zhou
- 2 The Ritual Figuration of the Zhou Kings
- 3 Ritual Recognition, Reward, and Patronage under the Zhou Kings
- 4 Ritual Assemblies and the Geopolitics of Zhou Expansion
- 5 Reading the “Ritual Reform”
- 6 The Ethic of Presence: Royal Ideology through Bronze Inscriptions
- Conclusion Zhou Ritual and Early Chinese History
- Appendix (Tables)
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Inscription Index
Summary
Chapter 2, “The Ritual Figuration of the Zhou Kings” examines the surviving records of a few rare but important ritual techniques that posed symbolic arguments about the relationship of the Zhou king to the social order and the natural world. The details of their implementation, as the chapter shows, reveal an effort to refigure the Zhou kings as qualitatively different from their contemporaries, with a special relationship to the natural world and its products.
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- Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China , pp. 80 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022