Introduction The Han and the Southern Reaches

Part I De-centering a Historicity of the Periphery
Chapter 1 History Regained in Prehistory
Chapter 2 Death and Funerary Ritual: Where Multiple Time Frames Converge

Part II Bronze Age Histories
Chapter 3 Time and Place in the Early Bronze Age
Chapter 4 Bronze Kettledrums: Emergence of an Iconic Regional Tradition
Chapter 5 A Southwest Political Time

Part III Native Subjects and Han Rule
Chapter 6 A Divided and Entangled Imperial Frontier
Chapter 7 The D(eb)atability of the Past

Concluding Remarks on Historiography of Frontiers
Bibliography
Index