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Author Churchman, Catherine, 1975- author.

Title The people between the rivers : the rise and fall of a bronze drum culture, 200-750 CE / Catherine Churchman.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Summary "Presents a history of the societies in the south of China known variously as Li and Lao who lived in the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in the first millennium CE, a period in which they produced the largest collection of bronze kettledrums known in the world"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A note on transcription and referencing systems -- List of the Chinese dynasties -- Digging up drums -- The Two Rivers and the lands between : a geographical outline -- Why are the Li and Lao? : the shifting meanings of ethnonyms -- "Masters of their small domains" : local and imported traditions of leadership -- "To overawe the Li and Lao" : attempts at military conquest -- Gold, silver, snakes, and slaves : highland-lowland trade relations -- Last of the bronze drum chiefs : the rise and fall of the great families -- Glossary.
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Subject Pearl River Region (China) -- Antiquities.
Red River Region (China and Vietnam) -- Antiquities.
Indigenous peoples -- China -- Pearl River Region -- History -- To 1500.
Indigenous peoples.
China -- Pearl River Region.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Red River Region (China and Vietnam) -- History -- To 1500.
Bronze drum -- China -- Pearl River Region -- History -- To 1500.
Bronze drum.
Bronze drum -- China -- Red River Region (China and Vietnam) -- History -- To 1500.
China.
Social archaeology -- China -- Pearl River Region.
Social archaeology -- Red River Region (China and Vietnam)
Pearl River Region (China) -- Social life and customs.
Red River Region (China and Vietnam) -- Social life and customs.
Social archaeology.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Antiquities.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Churchman, Catherine, 1975- author. People between the rivers Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442258600 (DLC) 2016017187
ISBN 9781442258617 (electronic)
1442258616
9781442258600 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1442258608 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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