Alice Yao

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present findings from systematic archaeological surveys in the Lake Dian basin in southwest China to evaluate processes of political differentiation during the Bronze Age (ca. BC 900-100) and identified with the protohistoric kingdom of Dian.

TL;DR: The authors examined the nature of early exchange networks within Yunnan, across southern China and into Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) using archaeometallurgical data from the Yunnanese Bronze Age sites of Hebosuo and Shangxihi.

TL;DR: The authors argue that resistance to state time is neither restricted to modern colonialism nor realized only in moments of organized rebellions, and demonstrate how native subjects, referred to as the Dian culture, enlisted the dead to detach ideas of personhood and political agency from imperial temporalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 17,000-year continuous multi-proxy record of hydroclimate and primary productivity from Lake Dian in the central Yunnan Province of China is presented, where sediment composition, opal, carbon to nitrogen ratios, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios, and magnetic susceptibility (MS) are used to identify four distinct units in the sediment record.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the development of writing in relation to statecraft in the Americas, Egypt, Near East and China, using a wide corpus of translated texts and archaeological materials.