The Rise and Fall of Xia

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Chapter One: Qi and the Battle of Gan

7 entries

1. 01What Succession Crisis Frames the Battle of Gan?EventHISFOL
2. 02Why Does the Youhu Clan Resist Qi?ResearchHISFOL
3. 03What Kind of War Speech Is the Speech at Gan?ResearchHIS
4. 04How Should “Despising the Five Phases and Abandoning the Three Standards” Be Read?ConceptHISTXT
5. 05Can Qi’s “Six Armies” Reveal an Actual Military System?ResearchHIS
6. 06What Do Rewards and Punishments before Altars and Ancestors Mean?ConceptHISTXT
7. 07How Is Qi’s Victory Written as Confirmation of a New Order?EncyclopediaHISFOL

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Chapter Two: Taikang Loses the Realm

7 entries

1. 01TaikangFigureHISFOL
2. 02What Versions Explain Taikang’s Loss of the Realm?ResearchHISFOL
3. 03What Political Warning Does the Songs of the Five Sons Preserve?ResearchHISTXT
4. 04Why Does Excessive Hunting Become a Story of Lost Rule?ConceptHISTXT
5. 05Hou Yi of QiongFigureHISFOLTXT
6. 06Are Hou Yi of Qiong and the Archer Who Shoots the Suns the Same Figure?ResearchHISFOLTXT
7. 07How Do Zhongkang and the Expedition of Yin Link Calendar and Kingship?ResearchHISTXT

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Chapter Three: Loss and Restoration

8 entries

1. 01What Transfer of Power Is Narrated in Hou Yi’s Displacement of Xia?EventHISFOL
2. 02How Does Han Zhuo Rise from Retainer to Ruler?ResearchHISFOL
3. 03Why Does the Death of Hou Yi Become a Moral Warning?ResearchHISFOLTXT
4. 04What Roles Do Ao and Yi Play in the Xia Restoration Story?ResearchHISFOL
5. 05How Do Xiang and Min Preserve the Xia Line?ResearchHISFOL
6. 06ShaokangFigureHISFOL
7. 07How Was the “Restoration under Shaokang” Narrated?EventHISFOLTXT
8. 08Why Does the Restoration Emphasize Exile, Marriage and Loyal Retainers?ConceptHISFOLTXT

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Chapter Four: The Xia Royal Line

8 entries

1. 01Why Is the Xia Line Often Counted as Fourteen Generations and Seventeen Kings?ResearchHIS
2. 02Why Do Texts Move the Xia Capital Repeatedly?ResearchARCHIS
3. 03What Clues Survive about Zhu, Huai, Mang, Xie and Bujiang?EncyclopediaHISFOL
4. 04How Does the Story of Kong Jia Raising Dragons Enter Xia History?LegendHISFOLTXT
5. 05Why Must the Xia Royal Genealogy Be Read in Layers?ResearchHIS
6. 06How Does the Bamboo Annals Reshape Xia Chronology?ResearchHIS
7. 07Can Royal Names, Place Names and Archaeological Sites Be Matched Directly?ResearchARCHIS
8. 08Where Does the Claim of a Four-Century Xia Come From?ResearchHIS

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Chapter Five: Jie and Tang

8 entries

1. 01Jie of XiaFigureHISFOLTXT
2. 02Why Is Moxi So Often Linked with Dynastic Collapse?ResearchHISFOLTXT
3. 03How Did the Catalogue of Jie’s Tyranny Accumulate?ResearchHISFOLTXT
4. 04Cheng TangFigureHISFOL
5. 05Why Is Yi Yin Central to the Overthrow of Xia?ResearchHISFOLTXT
6. 06How Does the Battle of Mingtiao End the Xia Narrative?EventHISFOL
7. 07How Does the Speech of Tang Justify Dynastic Revolution?ResearchHISTXT
8. 08Before the Zhou Mandate, How Is the Overthrow of Xia Justified?ConceptHISFOLTXT

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Chapter Six: Between Xia and Shang

7 entries

1. 01How Should the Xia Documents in Shangshu Be Assessed?ResearchHISTXT
2. 02How Does Shiji Turn the Xia Kings into Continuous History?ResearchHIS
3. 03What Does the Lack of an Explicit “Xia” in Oracle Bones Mean?ResearchARCHIS
4. 04What Urban Changes Appear in Late Erlitou?ResearchARC
5. 05How Should the Erlitou–Erligang Transition Be Understood?ResearchARCHIS
6. 06What Kind of Claim Is “Xia Culture” in Archaeology?ResearchARCHIS
7. 07From Xia to Shang: What Can Be Established?EncyclopediaARCHISFOL