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The People between the Rivers - The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200-750 CE (Hardcover)
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The People between the Rivers - The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200-750 CE (Hardcover)
Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in
any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in
southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a
thousand years. Bringing to life the mysterious early people known
as Li and Lao who inhabited the area, Catherine Churchman explores
their custom of casting large bronze kettledrums. As the symbols of
political authority and legitimacy for the Li and Lao rulers, the
abundance of drums found in the archaeological record is an
indication not only of the great number of such rulers, but also of
their great wealth and power, which increased significantly from
the third century CE even as the Chinese Empires tightened their
control over surrounding districts. Drawing on a combination of
Classical Chinese sources and scholarship in archaeology,
anthropology, and historical linguistics, the author explains the
political and economic factors behind the rise to power and
subsequent disappearance of the indigenous leadership and its drum
culture. She fills significant gaps in our understanding of the
early interactions between China and northern Southeast Asia,
challenging many widely held assumptions about the history of
Chinese settlement and ethnic relations in the region, including
those concerning the relationship between the Chinese Empires and
the lands that would form the heart of a future Vietnamese state. A
crucial work for understanding historical developments in the
highland regions south of the Yangtze valley, it examines the first
steps in the Sinic penetration of this highland world, one that has
continued to the present. Bringing unprecedented attention to the
historical identity of a previously overlooked region and a people,
this book creates a new category in East Asian history.
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