Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
Contents
Director's preface / Mimi Gardner Gates -- Curator's acknowledgements / Jay Xu -- Editor's preface / Robert Bagley -- Sichuan before the Warring States period / Jay Xu -- Sichuan in the Warring States and Han periods / Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens -- Bronze at Sanxingdui / Jay Xu -- Jade and stone at Sanxingdui / Jenny F. So -- The Chengdu Plain in the early first millennium BC: Zhuwajie / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- The archaeology of eastern Sichuan
at the end of the Bronze Age (fifth to third century BC) / Alain Thote -- Tombs and tomb furnishings of the Eastern Han period (AD 25-220) / Jessica Rawson -- The legacies of the Chengdu Plain / Michael Nylan -- Chinese character glossary / Jennifer Chen.