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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
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Kyong-McClain, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation considers whether or not archaeology was an effective tool for nation-building elites in Republican China (1912-1949), by looking at the discipline's fortunes in the off-center locale of Sichuan province. Through consideration of the multiplicity of agents and motives involved in archaeological enterprise in Republican Sichuan,…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Asian History, Modern History, Nationalism