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• Title:Memory and agency in ancient China : shaping the life history of objects / edited by Francis Allard, Yan Sun, Kathryn M. Linduff.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Allard, Francis, 1959- editor.
  Sun, Yan, 1970- editor.
  Linduff, Kathryn M., editor.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN855.C6 M44 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Material culture--China--History.
  China--Civilization.
  
• Description:xx, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Memory and Agency in Ancient China offers a novel perspective on China's material culture. The volume explores the complex 'life histories' of selected objects, whose trajectories as ginle objects ('biographies') and object types ('lineages') cut across both temporal and physical space. The essays, written by a team of international scholars, analyse the objects in an effort to understand how they were shaped by the constraints of their social, political and aesthetic contexts, just as they were also guided by individual preference and capricious memory. They also demonstrate how objects were capable of effecting change"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781108472579 (hardback)
  1108472575 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China / Gideon Shelach-Lavi
  2. Lives of Shovels, Vessels, and Bells in Early South China: Memory, Ritual, and the Power of Destination / Francis Allard
  3. Whole and Fragmented Lives of Jade Objects From Late Neolithic Middle Yangzi River Burials (C. 2000 BCE) / Sascha Priewe
  4. Social Life of Salt in Ancient China From the Late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty / Pochan Chen
  5. Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China From the Eleventh to the Tenth Century 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 (Fourth Century BCE to Third Century CE) / Sheri A. Lullo
  8. Biographical Approach to the Study of the Mounted Archer Motif During the Han Dynasty / Leslie V. Wallace
  9. Dynamic Between Form and Material: The Bi Disc in Western Han Noble Burial Ritual / Eileen Hauling Lam
  10. Crossing the Taiwan Strait Contextualizing and Re-Contextualizing Taiwanese Aboriginal Objects (1895-1980) / Hui Du
  11. Artifacts That Invoke the Aura and Authority of the Ancient / Katheryn M. Linduff.