Many Worlds Under One Heaven

One of the exciting developments of recent decades in the study of Western Zhou cultural history has been the discovery of numerous cultures on the frontiers of the Zhou cultural sphere. Whereas our understanding of Zhou culture was once largely limited to the capital area, Yan Sun draws on the latest scholarship to show us that the Zhou world was dynamically multi-ethnic and multicultural. -Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago

Many Worlds Under One Heaven is an important and fascinating contribution to the study of Early China. It is a welcome addition to recent research and presents a nuanced and variable picture of this formative period of Chinese civilization. Sun is doing masterful work in integrating archaeological and epigraphic data with anthropological theory to deconstruct the homogeneous image of the Western Zhou. -Gideon Shelach-Lavi, author of The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty

• Author: Yan Sun
• Published July 2021
• 336 pages, hardcover
• 9.3 x 6.1 inches