Language Chinese Publication date 2013 Pages 547 Genre History | Subject History of early China Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 2013 Page count 547 Country China | |
Publisher Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House Preceded by Benevolence and the Mandate of Heaven: Transformation of pre-Qin Confucian Classics Followed by Spirits Of Heaven and Ways of Heaven & Earth | ||
Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties: from Myths to Historical Facts is a book by a Taiwanese history professor Olga Gorodetskaya. It touches upon several predominant theories regarding Ancient China's earliest dynasties, namely Xia dynasty, Shang dynasty and Zhou dynasty, and tries to present archaeological evidence that those theories are in fact myths originated in early Chinese historical works, which resemble hagiographies and have little basis in reality on the ground. The book and as a result its author are a subject of considerable controversy within the Sinological academia, especially so within the People's Republic of China.;
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