China Night: Death and the Divine Kingship of the Late Shang
Thu 17 Dec · 612 · WC1H
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Join us at UCL Institute of Archaeology for the third seminar in Term 1 of the China Night Seminar Series, organised by the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology. The seminar will be given by Dr Zhengyuan Wang (UCL Institute of Archaeology and Zhejiang University ). Abstract This lecture brings together archaeological and palaeographic evidence to explore the ritual manifestations of divine kingship through the “collective representation of death” in the Late Shang, the largest dynastic polity in northern China between the fourteenth and eleventh centuries BCE and one…
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