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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 4 (2009)

Posted on July 13, 2011 by alphabex

FEATURES

Why Shanghai? On Engagement and Empiricism in the Field of Chinese Urban History (reviewing Wen-Hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843–1949; Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity)
Reviewed by Niv Horesh, 419

China’s Soft Power: The Case for a Critical and Multidimensional Approach (reviewing Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World)
Reviewed by Paul G. Pickowicz, 439

Li Lin, editor, The China Legal Development Yearbook
Reviewed by Carl Minzner, 456
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Asian Perspectives, vol. 49, no. 1 (2010)

Posted on July 5, 2011 by alphabex

ARTICLES

Early Pottery in South China
Tracey L-D Lu, 1

Potsherds of thick walls with coarse inclusions have been found in several archaeological sites in South China, associated with flaked or ground stone tools and ground organic implements. This paper focuses on the natural and cultural contexts, the chronology, and the characteristics of the early pottery found in South China, as well as the impetus to the origin of pottery and several related issues. It is argued that the earliest potters in South China were affluent foragers, who lived on diversified natural resources and were members of egalitarian societies.
Keywords: South China, pottery, terminal Pleistocene, early Holocene, foragers, subsistence strategies, exchange, ethnoarchaeology.

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