Whether it means consulting inscriptions on animal bones or tortoiseshells (see the Shang Oracle Bone in Section 2, Traces of Ideas) during the Shang and Zhou periods or using ... China's Ming Dynasty ...

Development stages Before the Qin Dynasty (221-207BC), traditional values from the Zhou Dynasty gradually collapsed ... concepts and values waned; and, society experienced major turbulence.

The most ancient dynasty, the Xia Dynasty ... It was in this period that slave society appeared and the next two dynasties, Shang (1600-1046 BC) and Western Zhou (1046-771 BC), saw it develop ...

Discovered in the Daxinzhuang Ruins in Jinan City, the capital of Shandong in east China, the vessel dated back to the the late Shang Dynasty—a period of Chinese history which spanned from roughly ...