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Chapter 2. I Thank Columbia University Press for Granting Permission to Quote Yang 1945:90, a Chinese Village Notes Chapter 2. I thank Columbia University Press for granting permission to quote Yang 1945:90, A Chinese Village. Taitou, Shandong Province. Chapter 4. GrovelAtlantic, Inc. kindly granted permission to quote Arthur Waley, The Book o/Songs (copyright line 1937), Seventh Printing, 1978, page 161. Waley uses his own system of ordering the poems, listing them by topic; poem #279 also is referred to here as entry #156 (see Waley 1987:351). Chapter 4. David Keightley generously granted permission to cite two helpful unpublished papers (Keightley 1975, 1985). Chapter 4. I am grateful to Elizabeth Childs-johnson for permission to cite her useful, unpublished dissertation (Childs-Johnson 1988). Chapter 5. The analysis for Dadunzi uses primarily Nanjing Museum 0964, 1%5). Burials reported in Nanjing Museum (981) from Dadunzi date to both the Early and Middle Regional Phases. Figures 5.8 and 5.28 do not include burials from Liulin or Dadunzi. Chapters 5, 6, and 7. Jim Railey generously allowed me to cite results from his important dissertation on ceramic change in the Yuanqu basin of southern Shanxi (Railey 1999). Chapter 7. I thank my sister, Emily Luchetti, a professional pastry chef, for leading me to Barbara Haber and Deborah Kelley-Milburn, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, who informed me about the web page men­ tioning bronze cooking vessels at Hampton Court Palace. The web site address is: www.castingsfshusiness.co.uklwarning.htm Chapter 7. I am very grateful to Dr. Fang Hui for helping me translate the section of the Zuo Zhuan (Yang 1981). Chapter 7. I thank Dr. Isabelle Druc for her translation from the French (Biot 1975) of the Dong Guan Kao GongJi. 259 References Ahern, E., 1973, The Cult o/the Dead in a Chinese Village, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Albert, S. M., 1988, How Big Are Melanesian Big-Men? 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