A Yao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 19580 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Yao |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Yao |
| FIRMA | YAO A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9438-760X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Disorder to Distinction
This article examines how scientific research on lactose digestion from 1950 to 1980 became entangled in shifting discourses on race, heredity, and population. It traces how scientific framings of lactose digestion changed during this period—initially racialized as a disorder (lactase deficiency) affecting Black Americans, later reclassified as an ethnic trait, and ultimately reinterpreted as a biomarker of European ancestry. Drawing on medical r…
Faunal exploitation in the first millennium BCE central Yunnan, China
The Archaeology of Han China
The Han Dynasty, which ruled from 202 BCE to 212 CE, is often taken as a reference point and model for Chinese identity and tradition. Covering a geographical expanse comparable to that of the People's Republic of China, it is foundational to understanding Chinese culture and politics, past and present. This volume offers an up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Han Empire. Alice Yao and Wengcheong Lam study the period via an interdiscipl…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China
Reviewed by: The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia by Maxim Korolkov Alice Yao The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia. Maxim Korolkov. New York: Routledge, 2022. 300+ pp., 24 figures, 5 tables, 3 appendices, glossary, index. Hardback US $136, ISBN 9780367654283; Paperback US $42, ISBN 9780367654290; eBook US $42, ISBN 9781003129394. At t…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China
Asian Perspectives, Vol. 63, No. 1 © 2024 by the University of Hawai‘i Press. The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia. Maxim Korolkov. New York: Routledge, 2022. 300 + pp., 24 figures, 5 tables, 3 appendices, glossary, index. Reviewed by Alice YAO (ORCID: 0000-0002-9438-760X), University of Chicago At the outset of Seeing Like a State, James Scott (1998: 2) argued that “the premodern state was…
Food production and agricultural systems on the southwestern frontier of the Han Empire
Dian Basin in Yunnan province is an important center for both early agricultural production and centralized state formation. Settled agricultural villages are present in the province since at least the third millennium BC, and by the first millennium BC, the Dian Culture, a highly specialized bronze polity, flourished in the Dian Basin and surrounding area, until it was conquered by the Han in 109 BC. The increased deployment of flotation at rece…
A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
Bridging the time gap in the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and Southwest China
Two millennia of anthropogenic landscape modification and nutrient loading at Dian Lake, Yunnan Province, China
Landscapes have been shaped by human activities for millennia and there is a pressing need to characterize pre-industrial impacts in order to mitigate present-day effects. We present the analysis of two sediment cores from Dian Lake in Yunnan, China, which span 4000 years. We compare cores from the northern and southern ends of the lake to investigate spatial variability in natural and anthropogenic environmental changes in this large (300 km 2 )…
Politics of Time on the Southwest Frontier of China's Han Empire
In this study of the Han imperial conquest of southwest China, I argue that time is a technique of political control in precapitalist empires and a source of power asymmetry that local subjects understood and actively sought to curtail. From the expansion of political economy to the invention of universal histories, imperial policies incorporate heterogeneous geographies and subjects into unified temporal frames, thus obscuring differences in soc…
A Divided and Entangled Imperial Frontier
Chapter 6 examines the imperial conquest of the region from the perspective of Mimo and Dian subjects living in what is now a Han province of Yizhou. Situating imperial rupture in relation to the two Bronze Age precedents of mound building and drum possession, the fate of drum-owning kings is addressed. The Han relocation of communities detected in the settlement archaeology had impacted the cycles of funerary ritual. In spite of community fragme…
The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China
'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China' offers a vivid account of the history of warrior polities occupying the southwestern frontiers of early China. Placing the archaeology of the 'Dian' and its Bronze Age neighbours in dialogue with anthropological theory, Alice Yao shows how local histories of kingship come to challenge and resist imperial governance as well as the production of historiography
Bronze Age wetland/scapes
Investigations into the Elemental Composition of Earthenware Vessels from the Guthe Collection using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis
This study undertakes an elemental compositional analysis of Philippine earthenware vessels from the Guthe collection using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). Unlike foreign trade ceramics, earthenware vessels were locally produced goods but which also played a part in the development of Philippine chiefdoms as an item traded between inland and coastal groups. Thus, the detection of compositional groups within earthenware vessels ma…
Rediscovering the settlement system of the ‘Dian’ kingdom, in Bronze Age southern China
Surface collection, exposed sections and the use of irrigation wells and channels enabled the authors to map the settlement pattern of the elusive Dian kingdom before it became a subsidiary of the Han empire. The pattern showed that the Dian were already hierarchical, with settlements of different sizes and a political centre in which ritual bronzes featured. The empire redrew the landscape, with settlement migrating away from the wetlands into t…
Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100)
Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity formation emanating from cross-cultural interaction. The borrowing of such concepts developed from recent history must contend with their relevance for the past as well as their applicability for understanding objects with mixed cultural features. This article reassesses the hybrid concept by contrasting a cognitive approach that identifies the figurative pro…
Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Southwestern China
Precipitating change or sustaining traditions
This paper expands on current understanding of indigenous communities in southwestern China before the Han imperial conquest by examining mortuary practices at two multigenerational cemetery mounds dating from the 8 th century BC to the 1 st century AD. Using published excavation reports and new data from the Qujing plain in Yunnan, this study investigates long term trends in local organization in order to assess the meaning of material culture c…
Scratching beneath iconographic and textual clues
Bronze Age wetland/scapes
Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Southwestern China
Bridging the time gap in the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and Southwest China
Rediscovering the settlement system of the ‘Dian’ kingdom, in Bronze Age southern China
Surface collection, exposed sections and the use of irrigation wells and channels enabled the authors to map the settlement pattern of the elusive Dian kingdom before it became a subsidiary of the Han empire. The pattern showed that the Dian were already hierarchical, with settlements of different sizes and a political centre in which ritual bronzes featured. The empire redrew the landscape, with settlement migrating away from the wetlands into t…
A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
Scratching beneath iconographic and textual clues
Politics of Time on the Southwest Frontier of China's Han Empire
In this study of the Han imperial conquest of southwest China, I argue that time is a technique of political control in precapitalist empires and a source of power asymmetry that local subjects understood and actively sought to curtail. From the expansion of political economy to the invention of universal histories, imperial policies incorporate heterogeneous geographies and subjects into unified temporal frames, thus obscuring differences in soc…
Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100)
Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity formation emanating from cross-cultural interaction. The borrowing of such concepts developed from recent history must contend with their relevance for the past as well as their applicability for understanding objects with mixed cultural features. This article reassesses the hybrid concept by contrasting a cognitive approach that identifies the figurative pro…
Two millennia of anthropogenic landscape modification and nutrient loading at Dian Lake, Yunnan Province, China
Landscapes have been shaped by human activities for millennia and there is a pressing need to characterize pre-industrial impacts in order to mitigate present-day effects. We present the analysis of two sediment cores from Dian Lake in Yunnan, China, which span 4000 years. We compare cores from the northern and southern ends of the lake to investigate spatial variability in natural and anthropogenic environmental changes in this large (300 km 2 )…
Food production and agricultural systems on the southwestern frontier of the Han Empire
Dian Basin in Yunnan province is an important center for both early agricultural production and centralized state formation. Settled agricultural villages are present in the province since at least the third millennium BC, and by the first millennium BC, the Dian Culture, a highly specialized bronze polity, flourished in the Dian Basin and surrounding area, until it was conquered by the Han in 109 BC. The increased deployment of flotation at rece…
Scratching beneath iconographic and textual clues
Precipitating change or sustaining traditions
This paper expands on current understanding of indigenous communities in southwestern China before the Han imperial conquest by examining mortuary practices at two multigenerational cemetery mounds dating from the 8 th century BC to the 1 st century AD. Using published excavation reports and new data from the Qujing plain in Yunnan, this study investigates long term trends in local organization in order to assess the meaning of material culture c…
Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Southwestern China
Rediscovering the settlement system of the ‘Dian’ kingdom, in Bronze Age southern China
Surface collection, exposed sections and the use of irrigation wells and channels enabled the authors to map the settlement pattern of the elusive Dian kingdom before it became a subsidiary of the Han empire. The pattern showed that the Dian were already hierarchical, with settlements of different sizes and a political centre in which ritual bronzes featured. The empire redrew the landscape, with settlement migrating away from the wetlands into t…
Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100)
Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity formation emanating from cross-cultural interaction. The borrowing of such concepts developed from recent history must contend with their relevance for the past as well as their applicability for understanding objects with mixed cultural features. This article reassesses the hybrid concept by contrasting a cognitive approach that identifies the figurative pro…
Investigations into the Elemental Composition of Earthenware Vessels from the Guthe Collection using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis
This study undertakes an elemental compositional analysis of Philippine earthenware vessels from the Guthe collection using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). Unlike foreign trade ceramics, earthenware vessels were locally produced goods but which also played a part in the development of Philippine chiefdoms as an item traded between inland and coastal groups. Thus, the detection of compositional groups within earthenware vessels ma…
Bronze Age wetland/scapes
A Divided and Entangled Imperial Frontier
Chapter 6 examines the imperial conquest of the region from the perspective of Mimo and Dian subjects living in what is now a Han province of Yizhou. Situating imperial rupture in relation to the two Bronze Age precedents of mound building and drum possession, the fate of drum-owning kings is addressed. The Han relocation of communities detected in the settlement archaeology had impacted the cycles of funerary ritual. In spite of community fragme…
The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China
'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China' offers a vivid account of the history of warrior polities occupying the southwestern frontiers of early China. Placing the archaeology of the 'Dian' and its Bronze Age neighbours in dialogue with anthropological theory, Alice Yao shows how local histories of kingship come to challenge and resist imperial governance as well as the production of historiography
Politics of Time on the Southwest Frontier of China's Han Empire
In this study of the Han imperial conquest of southwest China, I argue that time is a technique of political control in precapitalist empires and a source of power asymmetry that local subjects understood and actively sought to curtail. From the expansion of political economy to the invention of universal histories, imperial policies incorporate heterogeneous geographies and subjects into unified temporal frames, thus obscuring differences in soc…
Two millennia of anthropogenic landscape modification and nutrient loading at Dian Lake, Yunnan Province, China
Landscapes have been shaped by human activities for millennia and there is a pressing need to characterize pre-industrial impacts in order to mitigate present-day effects. We present the analysis of two sediment cores from Dian Lake in Yunnan, China, which span 4000 years. We compare cores from the northern and southern ends of the lake to investigate spatial variability in natural and anthropogenic environmental changes in this large (300 km 2 )…
Bridging the time gap in the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and Southwest China
A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
The Imperial Network in Ancient China
Asian Perspectives, Vol. 63, No. 1 © 2024 by the University of Hawai‘i Press. The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia. Maxim Korolkov. New York: Routledge, 2022. 300 + pp., 24 figures, 5 tables, 3 appendices, glossary, index. Reviewed by Alice YAO (ORCID: 0000-0002-9438-760X), University of Chicago At the outset of Seeing Like a State, James Scott (1998: 2) argued that “the premodern state was…
Food production and agricultural systems on the southwestern frontier of the Han Empire
Dian Basin in Yunnan province is an important center for both early agricultural production and centralized state formation. Settled agricultural villages are present in the province since at least the third millennium BC, and by the first millennium BC, the Dian Culture, a highly specialized bronze polity, flourished in the Dian Basin and surrounding area, until it was conquered by the Han in 109 BC. The increased deployment of flotation at rece…
The Archaeology of Han China
The Han Dynasty, which ruled from 202 BCE to 212 CE, is often taken as a reference point and model for Chinese identity and tradition. Covering a geographical expanse comparable to that of the People's Republic of China, it is foundational to understanding Chinese culture and politics, past and present. This volume offers an up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Han Empire. Alice Yao and Wengcheong Lam study the period via an interdiscipl…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China
Reviewed by: The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia by Maxim Korolkov Alice Yao The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia. Maxim Korolkov. New York: Routledge, 2022. 300+ pp., 24 figures, 5 tables, 3 appendices, glossary, index. Hardback US $136, ISBN 9780367654283; Paperback US $42, ISBN 9780367654290; eBook US $42, ISBN 9781003129394. At t…
From Disorder to Distinction
This article examines how scientific research on lactose digestion from 1950 to 1980 became entangled in shifting discourses on race, heredity, and population. It traces how scientific framings of lactose digestion changed during this period—initially racialized as a disorder (lactase deficiency) affecting Black Americans, later reclassified as an ethnic trait, and ultimately reinterpreted as a biomarker of European ancestry. Drawing on medical r…
Faunal exploitation in the first millennium BCE central Yunnan, China
Archaeology (15 obras) · History (14 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Ancient history (11 obras) · China (11 obras) · History (10 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 obras) · Bronze Age (8 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 obras)