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Christopher F. Kim | "Marriage is the Stairway to Disaster or Fortune": Marital Statecraft and the Decline of the Early Chinese Aristocracy

Friday, November 6, 2026 at 3 PM to 4 PM

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Brown University, Rhode Island Hall
1 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02912 (Providence)
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talk
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Lectures, Seminars and Workshops, Open to the Public

Eastern Zhou China (770–256 BCE) was a world in transformation. Over that time, the power of the early Chinese aristocracy and the kin-ordered states they ruled deteriorated amid destructive internecine competition. Consequently, the dominant form of state organization shifted from aristocratic olig

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