The Late Shang, also known as the Anyang period, is the earliest known literate civilization in China, spanning the reigns of the last nine kings of the...

The Shang dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo), also known as the Yin dynasty (殷代; Yīn dài), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow...

time, were held for divine fortune along with prosperity of the late Shang state. The Shang religion originated in the Yellow River valley, which comprised...

gùn, nunchaku, and jian. Shang-Chi later assumes leadership of the Five Weapons Society and acquires the Ten Rings weapons. Shang-Chi was spun off from novelist...

record—which first emerges c. 1250 – c. 1200 BCE at Yinxu, during the Late Shang. The Paleolithic period in palaeogeography refers to the stage of civilization...

of the Shang dynasty is the use of periodization to organize the history of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1046 BC) in ancient China. The Shang dynasty...

name given to Di Xin of Shang (商帝辛; Shāng Dì Xīn) or Shou, King of Shang (商王受; Shāng Wáng Shòu), the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China...

and trace isotope analysis. In the case of Shang period bronzes, various sites, from early to late Shang period, numerous samples of the bronze alloy...

Predynastic Shang or Proto-Shang (/ʃæŋ/; Chinese: 先商) refers to the state of Shang that is believed to have existed during the Xia dynasty in ancient China...

of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tiān ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology...