Book contents
- Memory and Agency in Ancient China
- Memory and Agency in Ancient China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword: In Memory of Pochan Chen
- Introduction
- One Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China
- Two The Lives of Shovels, Vessels, and Bells in Early South China
- Three The Whole and Fragmented Lives of Jade Objects from Late Neolithic Middle Yangzi River Burials (c. 2000 bce)
- Four The Social Life of Salt in Ancient China from the Late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty
- Five A Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China from the Eleventh to the Tenth Century bce
- Six Bird-Pillar Basins and Cylindrical Vessels
- Seven Toiletries and the Production of Social Memory from the Warring States through the Han (Fourth Century bce to Third Century ce)
- Eight A Biographical Approach to the Study of the Mounted Archer Motif during the Han Dynasty
- Nine Dynamic between Form and Material
- Ten Crossing the Taiwan Strait: Contextualizing and Re-Contextualizing Taiwanese aboriginal Objects (1895–1980)
- Eleven Artifacts that Invoke the Aura and Authority of the Ancient
- Index
- References
Five - A Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China from the Eleventh to the Tenth Century bce
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Book contents
- Memory and Agency in Ancient China
- Memory and Agency in Ancient China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword: In Memory of Pochan Chen
- Introduction
- One Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China
- Two The Lives of Shovels, Vessels, and Bells in Early South China
- Three The Whole and Fragmented Lives of Jade Objects from Late Neolithic Middle Yangzi River Burials (c. 2000 bce)
- Four The Social Life of Salt in Ancient China from the Late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty
- Five A Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China from the Eleventh to the Tenth Century bce
- Six Bird-Pillar Basins and Cylindrical Vessels
- Seven Toiletries and the Production of Social Memory from the Warring States through the Han (Fourth Century bce to Third Century ce)
- Eight A Biographical Approach to the Study of the Mounted Archer Motif during the Han Dynasty
- Nine Dynamic between Form and Material
- Ten Crossing the Taiwan Strait: Contextualizing and Re-Contextualizing Taiwanese aboriginal Objects (1895–1980)
- Eleven Artifacts that Invoke the Aura and Authority of the Ancient
- Index
- References
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