Bronze Drum Studies in China and Vietnam since the 1950s

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The modern history of bronze drum studies can be divided into three major phases. In the first, which lasted from the late 19th century to the early 1950s, the field was dominated by Western scholars. The second started in the early 1950s and ended in the early 1990s. Chinese and Vietnamese scholars gradually emerged as the leading researchers during this period. Nationalism became an important factor during this second phase, causing a heated debate between Chinese and Vietnamese archaeologists about the origins of the bronze drums in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the early 1990s, bronze drum studies have entered a third phase. Although disagreements about the origins of the bronze drums continue to exist, they have not prevented researchers from both countries from exploring other important aspects of the bronze drums or from collaborating in their research. Although Chinese and Vietnamese scholars are still the main force in the field, researchers from other countries have also been active. Whereas in the previous period, researchers from different countries in the bronze drum cultural zone emphasised the contributions of their respective countries, in the current phase efforts have been made to study the bronze drums as a shared cultural tradition of various ethnic groups in southern China and Southeast Asia and to use the bronze drum as a way to strengthen connections between and among the various nations in the bronze drum cultural zone.
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Authors Han Xiaorong
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197800324.013.0036
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197800324.013.0036
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