Title
The ancient Highlands of Southwest China [electronic resource] : from the Bronze Age to the Han empire / Alice Yao.
ISBN
9780199367368 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367344 doi
Call Number
DS793.S644 Y38 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
931
Summary
'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.
Note
'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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Oxford studies in the archaeology of ancient states.
Part I. De-centering a historicity of the periphery
History regained in prehistory
Death and funerary ritual: where multiple time frames converge
Part II. Bronze Age histories
Time and place in the early Bronze Age
Bronze kettledrums: emergence of an iconic regional tradition
A southwest political time
Part III. Native subjects and Han rule
A divided and entangled imperial frontier
The d(eb)atability of the past.