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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-18 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Question
Language: en
Pages: 560
Pages: 560
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-18 - Publisher: SUNY Press
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Language: en
Pages: 435
Pages: 435
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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