Research Catalog

Title

Ancient China and its Eurasian neighbors : artifacts, identity and death in the frontier, 3000-700 BCE / Katheryn M. Linduff, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Yan Sun, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, Wei Cao, Shaanxi Normal University, China, Yuanqing Liu, Shaanxi Normal University, China.

Author

Linduff, Katheryn M.

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Additional Authors

• Sun, Yan, 1970-
• Cao, Wei, 1955-
• Liu, Yuanqing (Of Shaanxi Normal University, China)

Description

x, 278 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct political control by the metropolitan states, where local and colonial ideas and practices were reconstructed transculturally. These identities were often merged and displayed in material culture. Types of objects, styles, and iconography were often hybrids or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages in which they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that marked a symbolic vision of place and person and that could mobilize support, legitimize rule, and bind people together. Through close examination of key artifacts, this book untangles the considerable changes in political structure and cultural makeup of ancient Chinese states and their northern neighbors.

Subject

• To 1644
• Antiquities
• Civilization
• Diplomatic relations
• China > Antiquities
• China > Civilization > To 221 B.C
• China > Foreign relations > Eurasia > To 1644
• China
• Eurasia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.

Contents

List of figures -- List of charts -- List of maps. Introduction: the inner Asian frontier reconsidered : The reconsidered inner Asian frontier. 1 Shaping the study of inner Asian artifacts and mental boundaries / Katheryn M. Linduff : Past scholarship -- Materialization of identity in metal on the inner Asian frontier: artifacts in action -- Frontiers or contact zones -- Artifacts as classificatory on the inner Asian frontier -- Methods and objectives -- Technoscapes, individualscapes, regionscapes and lineagescapes. 2 Technoscapes and the materialization of ideas in metal on the inner Asian frontier (c.3000-1500 BCE) / Katheryn M. Linduff : The emergence and distribution of early metal use: the scholarship -- Inner Asian frontier technoscapes -- Consequences of these early technoscapes: artifacts in action. 3 Identity and artifacts on the north central and northeastern frontier during the period of state expansion in th elate second and the early first millennium BCE / Yan Sun : The northeastern region -- Variations in identity construction in the northeastern region -- The north central region -- Different modes of identity construction in the central region of the inner Asian frontier. 4 The rise of states and the formation of group identities in the western regions of the inner Asian frontier (c.1500 to the eighth century BCE) / Wei Cao, and Yuanqing Liu, with Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun : The Jing and Wei River Valleys -- Local communities in western Gansu and the Qinghai region. 5 Final statemtns/conclusions and future challenges / Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun : The inner Asian frontier: a cultural crossroads -- The formation of technoscapes on the inner Asian frontier -- Individualscapes, regionscapes and lineagescapes from the late second to early first millennium BCE -- The fluidity of the scapes -- Final summation. Glossary of terms -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFF 18-449

ISBN

• 1108418619
• 9781108418614

OCLC

983195320

Author

Linduff, Katheryn M., author.

Title

Ancient China and its Eurasian neighbors : artifacts, identity and death in the frontier, 3000-700 BCE / Katheryn M. Linduff, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Yan Sun, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, Wei Cao, Shaanxi Normal University, China, Yuanqing Liu, Shaanxi Normal University, China.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1644

Added Author

Sun, Yan, 1970- author.

Cao, Wei, 1955- author.

Liu, Yuanqing (Of Shaanxi Normal University, China), author.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-449