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| | South China in the Han Period, Rafe de Crespigny Publications, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU |
 | | Moreover, the period of the Han dynasty and the short-lived Qin which preceded it, from the third century BC to the third century AD, is a part of the iron age, not the bronze age, of China. |
 | | This émigré Chinese state maintained its independence for almost a hundred years until the region was again conquered by the armies of Emperor Wu of Han in 112 BC, an achievement followed by acquisitions in the southwest of present-day Yunnan, notably the Tian kingdom in the region of the Tian Lake. |
 | | Indeed, from the fourth century to the seventh, as the north of China was all but overwhelmed by the political and military power of the steppe, it was the southern dynasties which played the major role in maintaining Han tradition in east Asia. |
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