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... of the money economy in ancient China. Emura Haruki's study provides us with the most comprehensive and authoritative survey and analysis of pre-Qin bronze coinage. As is well known, four distinct regions of monetary circulation emerged in the Warring States period: spade-shaped currencies in the Central...

...Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen Chinese Bronze-Age Weapons . By Max Loehr . Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press . 1956 . xiii, 233 . Illustrations, Plates, Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 620 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...J. A. Lefeuvre Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China . By David N. Keightley . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1978 . xviii , 281 pp. Notes, Tables, Figures, Appendixes, Bibliographies A and B, Finding List of Inscriptions and Oracle Bones...

...Li Tana Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship . By Liam C. Kelley . Asian Interactions and Comparisons. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, , 2005 . xiii , 267 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 152...

...C. Michele Thompson The People Between the Rivers: The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200–750 CE . By Catherine Churchman . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2016 . 266 pp. ISBN: 9781442258600 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright ©...

... Society of Oriental Art (Dec. 1936), 1–7. Stone and Bronze Axes of Melanesia Stone ax, Bougainville Island (14). Stone ax, Vella Lavella Island (15). Stone ax, Willaumez Peninsula (16). Stone ax, Nissan Island (17). Copper axes, Lake Sentani, Western New Guinea (18). Bronze axes, Java (19). (14) From...

...Katherine Field Caldwell Icons in Bronze. An Introduction to Indian Metal Images . By Lieut.-Gen. D. R. Thapar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . xx, 171 . Illustrated, Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $9.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961...

...Virginia C. Kane The Great Bronze Age of China: A Symposium . Edited by George Kuwayama . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1983 . 136 pp. Black-and-White Photographs, Line Drawings, Notes. $30 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 810...

...Max Loehr Bronze Culture of Ancient China . An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honan, dating from about 1400 B.C.–771 B.C. Museum Studies No. 5. By William Charles White . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1956 . xviii, 219 . 100 Pls., 7 Charts, 3 Maps...

... areas, and represents his latest views on the subject. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present . By Christopher I. Beckwith . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press...

...Gilbert L. Mattos Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels . By Edward L. Shaughnessy . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , 1992 . xix, 357 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Bell Yung Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China . By Lothar von Falkenhausen . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , 1993 . xxvi, 481 pp. $70.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Lothar von Falkenhausen The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia . Edited by Victor H. Mair . Volume I: Archaeology, Migration and Nomadism, Linguistics; volume II: Genetics and Physical Anthropology, Metallurgy, Textiles, Geography and Climatology, History...

...Magnus Fiskesjö The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia . By Charles Higham . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . 381 pp. $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 251 the history of the former two Vietnams...

...Roswell S. Britton Chinese bronzes. A descriptive and illustrative catalogue of Chinese bronzes acquired during the administration of John Ellerton Lodge . Compiled by The Staff of the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1946 . 108 p., 50 plates. $5.00...