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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T120000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/legendary-yelang-state-southwe
 st-china-what-where-and-whom-rethinking-roles-historical/
SUMMARY:The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China\, What\, Where and by
  Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in recon
 structing ancient history
DESCRIPTION:\n	Xu Jian (Professor of Archaeology and Art history\, Departme
 nt of History\, Sun Yat-sen University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/dis
 cussant: Rowan Flad (John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department 
 of Anthropology\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank C
 enter for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	For decades\, Chinese archaeologists have 
 searched extensively in current Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan for remain
 s of the legendary state of Yelang\, which is still largely out of sight. 
 The Yelang state\, ranging from the 4th to the 1st century BCE\, is depict
 ed ambiguously in the Records of the Great Historian as one of the targe
 ts and victims during Western Han expansion in the Southwest. The continua
 l findings of large burial sites in Zhongshui\, Weining and Kele\, Hezhang
  call great attention by high qualified or exotic artifacts from elite tom
 bs\, unusual burial practice hinting at long-distance contact\, and a cert
 ain degree of social complexity revealed by the hierarchy system in the me
 asurements of the burials\, but some key features\, assumed as indexes of 
 Bronze culture by the dominant Childe school\, such as city wall or fortif
 ications\, ceremonial\, administrative or general public architecture\, ar
 e absent from these sites. Did the Yelang state really exist in history? H
 ave archaeologists already exposed its nucleus or is its urban center stil
 l underground and beyond archaeologists’ reach? What are the possible sh
 apes and characteristics of the Yelang state? This presentation will take 
 into account all these issues\, and raise further discussion on how to rec
 onstruct history by historical writings from an etic perspective and archa
 eological finds gained in a framework based on experiences from dramatical
 ly different settings.
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