Katheryn M. Linduff is in the departments of art history and anthropology at University of Pittsburgh. Yan Sun is in the department of Visual Arts at Gettysburg College

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 Introduction: Gender and Chinese ArchaeologyPart 3 PART I: THE NEOLITHIC PERIODChapter 4 Chapter 1: Marxist and Post-Marxist Paradigms for the NeolothicChapter 5 Chapter 2: Mortuary Ritual in Northwestern ChinaChapter 6 Chapter 3: The Late Neolithic Cemetery at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous RegionPart 7 PART II: SHANG DYNASTIC PERIODChapter 8 Chapter 4: Queens and Royal Ladies at AnyangPart 9 PART III: ZHOU DYNASTIC PERIODChapter 10 Chapter 5: Ritual Practice, Status, and Gender Identity: Western Zhou at BaojiChapter 11 Chapter 6: Gender Differentiation in Jin State Jade RegulationsChapter 12 Chapter 7: Gender, Status, Ritual Regulations, and Mortuary Practice in the State of JinChapter 13 Chapter 8: Female and Male Status Displayed at the Maoqinggou CemeteryChapter 14 Chapter 9: Gender and Kinship in Burial Practice at the Pinyang SitePart 15 PART IV: HAN-DATE PERIODChapter 16 Chapter 10: Female Divinities in Han Dynasty RepresentationChapter 17 Chapter 11: Figures Horsemen in the Dian Culture of YunnanChapter 18 Chapter 12: Textile Production and Female Status in Bronze Age YunnanPart 19 GlossaryPart 20 BibliographyPart 21 IndexPart 22 About the Contributors

Gender and Chinese Archaeology is the first book to consider gender in the archaeological record of China. Linduff and Sun have assembled a group of China specialists who read the primary literature in Chinese archaeology and apply sophisticated analyses of gender to artifacts and sites. The chapters range from Neolithic sites to the Han Dynasty. Far from showing a monolithic disregard of women in early China, this book reveals many different gender roles and ideologies. The variation in gender in these times and places, depending sometimes on class or age or other attributes, is one of the important messages of the book.