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Shang|ʃæŋ|
Also Chang, Xanga.
[Chinese shāng.]
The name of a dynasty which ruled China during part of the second millennium b.c., probably from the 16th to the 11th century b.c. Also attrib. or as adj. Also called Shang-Yin [f. the place-name Yin in Honan Province, the dynasty's final capital].
1669J. Ogilby tr. Nieuhoff's Embassy Grand Tartar Cham xviii. 281 [Then] arose the family of Xanga, whereof the Emperor Tangus, in the year before Christ's Birth 1766, was the first who called it Xanga, from a Lordship of the same name he possessed. 1736R. Brookes tr. Du Halde's Gen. Hist. China I. 298 (heading) The Second Dynasty, called Chang, which comprehends the Lives of Twenty Eight Emperors in the Space of 644 Years. 1797Encycl. Brit. IV. 653/1 The whole of their [sc. of the Chinese] emperors..are comprehended in 22 dynasties, mentioned in the following table... 2. Shang, or Ing. 1877Ibid. VI. 259/2 Confucius's own ancestry is traced up, through the sovereigns of the previous dynasty of Shang, to Hwang-ti. 1933R. Fry Let. 15 Dec. (1972) II. 686 Some..accomplished pre-Cheou bronzes: Shang they say but anyhow earlier than anything I knew. 1939Burlington Mag. Feb. 85/2 Practically everything is problematical... This applies to the use of Shang weapons, though their date seems fairly safe. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. 108 Writing in Shang-Yin times may have been more widespread through society than was at first believed. 1972S. H. Hansford Gloss. Chinese Art & Archaeol., Ku..is applied especially to objects attributed to the..Hsia, Shang-Yin and Chou, and the Han Dynasty. 1978New Archaeol. Finds in China II. 2 Shang relics have been newly discovered in regions other than the Central Plains. |