This book published in 2015 is a detailed study of the Western and Eastern Zhou dynasties.
Zhao posits that the main characteristics of the Chinese administration were settled by the time of the Western Zhao.
These are the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven, the feudalism system, the lineage system, the Confucian-Legalist state, and the writing system, which is non-alphabetic [and thus non-phonetic] and so can be read by all Chinese despite the different dialects.
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