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Author:   Francis Allard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) ,  Yan Sun (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania) ,  Kathryn M. Linduff (University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 26.10cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9781108472579

ISBN 10:   1108472575
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: memory and agency in Ancient China: shaping the life histories of objects Francis Allard, Yan Sun and Katheryn M. Linduff; 1. Memory, amnesia and the formation of identity symbols in China Gideon Shelach; 2. The lives of shovels and bells in early South China: memory, ritual and the power of destination Francis Allard; 3. The whole and fragmented lives of jade objects from late Neolithic Middle Yangzi river burials (ca. 2000 BC) Sascha Priewe; 4. The social life of salt in Ancient China from the Late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty Pochan Chen; 5. A divergent life history of bronze willow-leaf-shaped swords of Western Zhou China from 11th to c. 10th centuries BCE Yan Sun; 6. Bird-pillar basins and cylindrical vessels: object lineage in Ancient China Xiaolong Wu; 7. Toiletries and the production of social memory from the warring states through the Han (4th c. BCE–3rd c. CE) Sheri Lullo; 8. A biographical approach to the study of the mounted archer motif during the Han Dynasty Leslie Wallace; 9. Dynamic between form and material: the bi disc in Western Han noble burial ritual Eileen Lam; 10. Crossing the Taiwan Strait: contextualizing and re-contextualizing Taiwan Aboriginal Objects (1895–1980) Du Hui; 11. Artifacts that invoke the aura and authority of the ancient Katheryn M. Linduff

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Francis Allard is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Pennsylvania. Allard is a scholar of complex societies, nomadic pastoralism, and the expansion of the Han Empire. Yan Sun is Professor of Art History at Gettysburg College. A scholar of the bronze cultures in north China, she is co-author of Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors (Cambridge, 2017). Katheryn Linduff is Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. A specialist in the art and archaeology of Eurasia and East Asia, she is most recently co-author of Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors (Cambridge, 2017) and editor of several books.

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