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The Western Zhou is said to have run from roughly 1100-771 BCE, succeeded by the Eastern Zhou (770-256 BCE), which is divided into the [[Spring and Autumn Period|Spring and Autumn]] and [[Warring States Period]]s of Chinese history.
The Western Zhou is said to have run from roughly 1100-771 BCE, succeeded by the Eastern Zhou (770-256 BCE), which is divided into the [[Spring and Autumn Period|Spring and Autumn]] and [[Warring States Period]]s of Chinese history.
Fairly decentralized, the Zhou Dynasty operated as a quasi-feudal, multi-state system, often contrasted to the centralized, bureaucratic state established in the [[Han Dynasty]], and maintained by every major dynasty since (with the obvious exceptions of periods of disunity, such as the period of [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]] which followed the fall of the [[Tang Dynasty]]).<ref>Albert Craig, ''The Heritage of Chinese Civilization'', Third Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 21-27.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*K.C. Chang, ''Art, Myth, and Ritual'', Harvard University Press (1983), 133-134.
*K.C. Chang, ''Art, Myth, and Ritual'', Harvard University Press (1983), 133-134.
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[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Historical Periods]]