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The 61 pages that link to Zhou dynasty, each with the reason it gives.

• Shang dynastyRelated: Zhou rulers inherited Shang practices while recasting the dynasty’s fall as a lesson in political legitimacy.

• Bamboo AnnalsRelated: The chronicle’s account extends through Zhou rulers and the era of competing states.

• SinocentrismRelated: The Zhou political legacy helped shape later ideas of legitimate rule and civilized authority.

• ShaanxiRelated: The Zhou began their rule in the Wei River valley, within present-day Shaanxi.

• TianRelated: Zhou rulers developed Tian’s authority into a justification for replacing the Shang.

• Classical Chinese proseRelated: Many texts later treated as prose models were composed or compiled during the Zhou era.

• Confucian ritualRelated: Confucian ritual drew authority from institutions and ceremonies associated with Zhou rule.

• HuaxiaRelated: Zhou political language and ritual traditions became central to later accounts of Huaxia civilization.

• Investiture of the GodsRelated: Its founding provides the historical destination of the novel’s war.

• Wei RiverRelated: The Zhou established their early political center in the Wei River valley.

• CongeeRelated: Early Chinese texts from the Zhou period discuss grain preparations related to porridge.

• Duke Mu of QinRelated: Qin’s rulers, including Duke Mu, held titles within the Zhou political system.

• TianxiaRelated: The Zhou political order helped establish concepts later associated with Tianxia.

• Xu ZhonglinRelated: The novel’s political plot centers on the Zhou conquest of Shang.

• CunRelated: Early Chinese systems of length measurement are documented in sources associated with Zhou-era institutions.

• EryaRelated: Some material in Erya preserves vocabulary associated with the Zhou period.

• Four occupationsRelated: Later accounts connected occupational order to ideals attributed to early Zhou society.