Title-page illustration. Thanks to Robert Bagley for providing me with this image, which I have modified, from Tch’ou and Pelliot, Bronzes antiques, plate 16.
Figures 1, 9, 11. Photos from the collection “Mission archéologique, Chine, 1914” from Victor Segalen, Augusto Gilbert de Voisins, and Jean Lartigue’s archaeological expedition to China. Each comes from a different folder: fig. 1 from “Ling-pao hien, passe de Han-kou-kouan,” fig. 9 from “Ts’in ling,” and fig. 11 from “Lin-t’ong hien.” Courtesy of gallica.bnf.fr and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Figure 2. Images republished with permission of Princeton University Press, from Andrew T. Smith and Yan Xie, eds., A Guide to the Mammals of China, illustrated by Federico Gemma (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008); permission conveyed through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. except for those of the water buffalo (from “Animals Exhibited at the Calcutta Agricultural Show,” Illustrated London News, July 2, 1864, 5), the rhinoceros (from the Viscount Walden, “Report on the Additions to the Society’s Menagerie,” Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872, 789–860), and the aurochs (from Smith, The Animal Kingdom, plate 51).
Figure 3. Detail of Millet and Sparrows by Geiai 芸愛, sixteenth-century Japan. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Figure 4. Ceremonial wine vessel with cover (you). Chinese, Western Zhou dynasty, 11th century B.C. Bronze with eight-character inscription. H. 25 cm (9 13/16 in.). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Anna Mitchell Richards Fund. 34.63a-b.
Figure 5. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1915.107). Thanks to the Freer Gallery for the image of the vessel and to Amy McNair and Artibus Asiae for permission to publish the drawing from Weber, “Chinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels,” Figure 69.
Figure 6. Thanks to Sun Zhouyong and the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology for permission to use this image, which is taken from Liu, China’s Terracotta Warriors, 121. The model is 22.6 centimeters high.
Figure 7. On the tomb, see Han Yangling bowuguan, Han Yangling. Thanks to Sun Zhouyong for these images and the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology for permission to use them.
Figure 8. Thanks to Jiao Nanfeng for providing me with this image and permission to use it.
Figure 10. Photographed at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum. The model is 27 centimeters tall. Photo by author.
Figure 12. Image from Chen, Sun, and Yan, Qin jiandu heji (2014), 350. Size: 26.5 by 18.1 by 1.1 centimeters. Thanks to Chen Wei and Wuhan University Press for permission to use this image.
Map 1. China topography map (detail), Wikimedia Commons. Source: Tom Patterson, US National Park Service. Labels and demarcation have been added.
Maps 2, 3, 6, 8. Base map by Lynn Carlson, GISP.
Maps 4–5. Data are from the Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, and Henan volumes of the Zhongguo wenwu dituji as digitized in Hosner et al., “Archaeological Sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age,” supplementary dataset, PANGAEA, 2016: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.860072. Maps by Lynn Carlson, GISP.
Map 7. Based on Tan, Zhongguo lishi dituji, vol. 1, 33–34. Base map by Lynn Carlson, GISP.
Map 9. Data from Zhongguo wenwuju, Zhongguo wenwu dituji: Shaanxi fence.
Map 10. Thanks to Kaogu for permission to use this image from Qin, Yang, and Zhao, “Shaanxi Jingyang xian Qin Zheng Guo Qu.”
Map 11. Based on Tan, Zhongguo lishi dituji, vol. 2, 3–12, and Korolkov, “Empire-Building,” 195. Base map by Lynn Carlson, GISP.