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Five - A Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China from the Eleventh to the Tenth Century bce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2018

Francis Allard
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Yan Sun
Affiliation:
Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
Kathryn M. Linduff
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Memory and Agency in Ancient China
Shaping the Life History of Objects
, pp. 120 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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