商品簡介
This book is 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. The study not only fills several gaps in our understanding of the history of Southern China, it also challenges many widely held assumptions about the history of ethnic relations and Chinese settlement of the Lingnan region, as well as the relationship between the Chinese Empires and the lands that would form the heart of a future Vietnamese state.
作者簡介
Catherine Churchman is a lecturer in the Asian Studies Programme in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University, Wellington.
