TY - GEN N2 - 'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China' offers a vivid account of the history of warrior polities occupying the southwestern frontiers of early China. Placing the archaeology of the 'Dian' and its Bronze Age neighbours in dialogue with anthropological theory, Alice Yao shows how local histories of kingship come to challenge and resist imperial governance as well as the production of historiography. DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367344 DO - doi AB - 'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China' offers a vivid account of the history of warrior polities occupying the southwestern frontiers of early China. Placing the archaeology of the 'Dian' and its Bronze Age neighbours in dialogue with anthropological theory, Alice Yao shows how local histories of kingship come to challenge and resist imperial governance as well as the production of historiography. T1 - The ancient Highlands of Southwest Chinafrom the Bronze Age to the Han empire / AU - Yao, Alice, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - DS793.S644 ID - 756739 SN - 9780199367368 TI - The ancient Highlands of Southwest Chinafrom the Bronze Age to the Han empire / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367344.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367344.001.0001 ER -