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Cultural hybridity and social status: elite tombs on China's Northern Frontier during the third century BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Xiaolong Wu
Xiaolong Wu*
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*Art and Art History, Hanover College, 359 LaGrange Road, Hanover, Indiana 47243, USA (Email: wu@hanover.edu)
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Abstract

It is a pleasure to present this vivid account of elite tombs on China's Northern Frontier, together with a closely argued case for cultural hybridity within the postcolonial paradigm. This incisive exposition of political interaction on a frontier will resonate with all of us who work with ‘imperial-barbarian’ relations—on any continent.

Keywords

ChinaZhangjiachuanMajiayuan cemeteryQin Statethird century BCXi Ronghigh status burialpostcolonial theory
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 87 , Issue 335 , March 2013 , pp. 121 - 136
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2013

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