内容简介：
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
作者简介：
Lothar von Falkenhausen obtained a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University in 1988. Having taught at Stanford University and UC Riverside, he came to UCLA in 1993 and was promoted to Professor in 1997. His research concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, preferably focusing on large interdisciplinary and historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. One example of this orientation are his numerous publications on musical instruments (especially chime-bells), culminating in his book Suspended Music (University of California Press, 1993). Other publications concern ancient Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions, ritual, regional cultures, archaeological synthesis, ancient trans-Asiatic contacts, and methodological issues. As the American co-PI of the ongoing Peking University-UCLA Joint Archaeological Project, he is directing excavations at ancient salt-production sites in the Yangzi River Basin. He serves as editor of the Journal of East Asian Archaeology and of the Early China Special Monographs Series.
目录：
Introduction 1
Ch. 1. The reorganization of the elite in late Western Zhou (ca. 850 BC) 29
Ch. 2. Distinctions of rank and gender within territorial ruling lineages (ca. 1000-650 BC) 74
Ch. 3. A north Chinese community (ca. 800-450 BC) : demography and ranking 127
Ch. 4. Clan differences within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-500 BC) 169
Ch. 5. Ethnic contrasts within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-350 BC) 204
Ch. 6. An expanding society (ca. 1050-250 BC) 244
Ch. 7. The Eastern Zhou religious transformation (ca. 600-221 BC) 293
Ch. 8. The separation of the higher and lower elites (ca. 750-221 BC) 326
Ch. 9. The merging of the lower elite with the commoner classes (ca. 600-221 BC) 370
Conclusion 401
References for tables 19-30 421
Bibliography 426
List of Archaeological sites 508
General index and glossary 517