Yan Sun is a professor of art history at Gettysburg College. She is coauthor of Ancient China and Its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE (2018) and coeditor of Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects (2018), among other publications.

• List of mapsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgmentsReign Dates of Western Zhou KingsIntroduction1. An Old Frontier and New Challenges in the Northwest2. A Frontier Close to Home: Lineage Polities in the Western Baoji Region3. The North-Central Frontier: Political Integration and Cultural Homogenization4. The Northeastern Frontier: Colonization, Confrontation, and Collaboration5. The Emerging Frontier in the Far West: The Upper Wei and Xihan River ValleysConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

In a highly scholarly work, with a masterly command of archaeological detail, Yan Sun illustrates the diversity of northern China that the Zhou, following their conquest of the Shang in 1045 BCE, had to bring under control. In drawing the different groups together, the Zhou laid one of the foundations for today’s China.

Yan Sun is a professor of art history at Gettysburg College. She is coauthor of Ancient China and Its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE (2018) and coeditor of Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects (2018), among other publications.

• List of mapsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgmentsReign Dates of Western Zhou KingsIntroduction1. An Old Frontier and New Challenges in the Northwest2. A Frontier Close to Home: Lineage Polities in the Western Baoji Region3. The North-Central Frontier: Political Integration and Cultural Homogenization4. The Northeastern Frontier: Colonization, Confrontation, and Collaboration5. The Emerging Frontier in the Far West: The Upper Wei and Xihan River ValleysConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

In a highly scholarly work, with a masterly command of archaeological detail, Yan Sun illustrates the diversity of northern China that the Zhou, following their conquest of the Shang in 1045 BCE, had to bring under control. In drawing the different groups together, the Zhou laid one of the foundations for today’s China.

Yan Sun is a professor of art history at Gettysburg College. She is coauthor of Ancient China and Its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE (2018) and coeditor of Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects (2018), among other publications.

• List of mapsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgmentsReign Dates of Western Zhou KingsIntroduction1. An Old Frontier and New Challenges in the Northwest2. A Frontier Close to Home: Lineage Polities in the Western Baoji Region3. The North-Central Frontier: Political Integration and Cultural Homogenization4. The Northeastern Frontier: Colonization, Confrontation, and Collaboration5. The Emerging Frontier in the Far West: The Upper Wei and Xihan River ValleysConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

In a highly scholarly work, with a masterly command of archaeological detail, Yan Sun illustrates the diversity of northern China that the Zhou, following their conquest of the Shang in 1045 BCE, had to bring under control. In drawing the different groups together, the Zhou laid one of the foundations for today’s China.