How Long to Read The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China by Alice Yao

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC. In the first century BC, Han imperial conquest reduced local power and began a process of cultural assimilation. Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, this book examines the classic study of imperial rule as a confrontation between different political temporalities. The author provides an archaeological account of the southwest where Bronze Age landscape formations and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing warrior cultures and kingly genealogies. In particular, the book illustrates how mourners used funerals and cemetery mounds to transmit social biographies and tribal affiliations across successive generations. Han incorporation thus entangled the orders of state time with the generational cycles of local factions, foregrounding the role of time in the production of power relations in imperial frontiers. The book extends approaches to empires to show how prehistoric time frames continue to shape the futures of frontier subjects despite imperial efforts to unify space and histories.

How long is The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China?

The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China by Alice Yao is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China?

The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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