c. 1046 BCE–c. 771 BCE
Western Zhou appointment and administration records
Law & constitutions · Administración y justicia
Western Zhou bronze inscriptions record appointments, commands, and official functions. They document early procedures of authority and administration; they are not a general law code and do not warrant projecting later legal categories onto all of ancient China.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- www.cambridge.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2001-01
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.