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How Settlements Became States: From the Neolithic Age to the Xia, Shang, and Zhou
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 1
Completed · 53 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Chinese History: A Contaminated Crime Scene? 2. Yang Zhao: Why Am I Reckless Enough to Retell All of Chinese History Alone? 3. The Origins and Priorities of Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History 4. How Did People in Antiquity Understand History? 5. Ancient-History Research from Authentication to Doubting Antiquity 6. Understanding Chinese History Scientifically: The Discovery of Oracle Bones 7. Beginning with Archaeology: Rethinking Chinese History Bonus | Amusing Stories from My Archaeology Studies 8. A Dream Both Scientific and Romantic 9. Exploring an Excavation: What Does Archaeology Examine? 10. How Do Archaeologists Reconstruct a Contaminated Crime Scene? 11. In the Neolithic, China Finally Had ‘Cultures’ to Discuss 12. Neolithic People: Living by Water or in the Hills? 13. Do Ceramics Contain the Origins of Chinese Intellectual History? 14. Why Begin with Vessels to Understand the Origins of the Chinese State? Bonus | How Should We Explain the Exotic Style of Sanxingdui Artifacts? 15. Did the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Coexist or Succeed One Another? 16. How Did the Earliest States Emerge? 17. Building Technology and Social Differentiation 18. The Rise of Xia, Shang, and Zhou: Masters of Rammed Earth? 19. How Did the Shang Surpass Earlier Civilizations? 20. Lessons from Objects: The Mythic World Built by the Shang 21. Are Oracle Bones China's Earliest Written Records? 22. Clans and the Changing Overlords of Xia, Shang, and Zhou 23. Was Belief in Spirits the Core of Shang Politics? 24. Clues to the Shang Rise: Spirits and Animal Power 25. A Strange Shang Idea: Animals Were More Than Animals, and Humans Not Necessarily Human 26. Why Was Shang Organization Structured Around Binary Oppositions? 27. The Rise of the Zhou 28. How the Zhou Imitated and Transformed Writing 29. From Shang to Zhou: Faith Shifts from Spirits to Human Beings 30. Enough Was Enough: The Widening Conflict Between Shang and Zhou 31. The Battle of Muye and a Change of Overlord That Redirected History 32. Political Change Before and After the Zhou Conquest of Shang 33. The Duke of Zhou: China's First Statesman 34. Was the Feudal Order a Form of Armed Colonization? 35. How Was Rule Maintained After Enfeoffment? 36. Patrilineal Kinship: When the Power System Is the Family System 37. Zhao and Mu: Is a Son Closer to His Grandfather? 38. The Origins of the ‘Man-Eating’ Ritual Order 39. Zhou Culture: The Genetic Code of Chinese Civilization 40. The Zhou Legacy I: Architecture and the Relationship Between Heaven and Humanity 41. The Zhou Legacy II: Regions, Kinship, and a Life View Shaped by Adversity 42. The Zhou Legacy III: Territory, Population, and Writing 43. What Did Writing and Language Create? 44. Why Have Chinese Characters Endured? 45. Does Chinese Have a Fixed Grammar? 46. How Does Chinese Shape the Way We Think? 47. Documents: History Selected for the Record 48. The Authority of Writing and the True Face of History 49. Historical Lenses Separated by Time 50. The Ancient ‘State’ Was Not Today's Nation-State 51. From Western Zhou to Eastern Zhou: A Political System That Could Not Be Sustained