The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times

by Richard von Glahn and Dina Nayeri

Until the Song dynasty, the mountains and rocky gorges of Sichuan were inhabited primarily by forest peoples. Increased settlement by Han Chinese farmers from the rice-growing plains altered the landscape, changed the balance of power among tribes, and adapted Han custom to new conditions. This book describes how the remote Luzhou area of Sichuan became fully integrated into Chinese civilization.

First colonized under private auspices, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674175433
• ISBN13: 9780674175433
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"