how China's first cities and early states rose and fell, from Liangzhu's water city to stone-walled

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• Liangzhu Museum

  Siyuwj

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• The Jade Cong King

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu jade yue axe

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Liangzhu jade cong

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Liangzhu pottery

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Round jade plate with dragon-head motif, Yaoshan tomb 2

  猫猫的日记本

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• Stone friezes at Shimao

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• Longshan eggshell pottery cup, Victoria and Albert Museum

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• Stone wall at Shimao

  Bilaterian; modifications by पाटलिपुत्र

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  Existing crop and removal of a blue towel by पाटलिपुत्र from Bilaterian's photograph of Karl Taube and Li Xinwei at Shimao; resized for the film.

• Liangzhu pottery dou

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Liangzhu high dams

  Siyuwj

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• Carved stone figure at Shimao

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  Existing crop and contrast adjustment by पाटलिपुत्र of Bilaterian's photograph of Karl Taube and Li Xinwei at Shimao; resized for the film.

• Trident-shaped jade, Fanshan tomb 14

  Siyuwj

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• Taosi pottery plate with dragon design

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• Jade cong from Yaoshan tomb 12

  Siyuwj

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• Plan of Shimao, about 2300–1800 BCE

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• Jade yue axe from Yaoshan tomb 2

  猫猫的日记本

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• Stone chime from Taosi

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• Liangzhu high dams

  Siyuwj

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• Pottery jar with incised symbols, Liangzhu Museum

  Yumeto

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• Eggshell pottery cup from Yinjiacheng, Shandong University Museum

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• Shimao citadel wall structure

  Bilaterian; modifications by पाटलिपुत्र

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• Human figure on a jade comb back, Fanshan tomb 15

  Siyuwj

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• Wooden spear and clogs, Liangzhu Museum

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• Incised signs on Liangzhu pottery

  Siyuwj

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• Jiangnan Water Town Museum display

  Siyuwj

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• Jade bi disc from Fanshan tomb 14

  猫猫的日记本

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• Pottery figurines from Shijiahe

  Furius

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• Ritual object (cong)

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Model of Liangzhu Ancient City

  Siyuwj

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• Ceremonial Disc (Bi)

  The Cleveland Museum of Art

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  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection.

• Eleven-tier jade cong with masks

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution

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  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Charles Lang Freer.

• One-tier jade cong with masks

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution

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  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Charles Lang Freer.

• Jade cong from Fanshan tomb 17

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• Jade yazhang blades excavated at Shimao

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu high dams

  Siyuwj

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• Excavation of the proposed observatory at Taosi

  Gary Todd

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• Liangzhu jade yue axe with handle decorations

  Siyuwj

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• Qiuwu archaeological site

  Siyuwj

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• Taosi-culture jade yue axe

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu archaeological site

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu archaeological site

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu archaeological site

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu Ancient City site

  Siyuwj

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• Jade comb back from Fanshan tomb 15

  Siyuwj

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• Pottery figurines from Shijiahe

  Furius

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• Tangshan levee site

  Siyuwj

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• Shimao East Gate, reconstruction from outside

  पाटलिपुत्र

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• Liangzhu potsherd with incised signs

  Siyuwj

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• Liangzhu jade bi disc

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• Chengziya city wall

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• Charred rice grains from Mojiaoshan — Tanaka et al. (2020), Figure 2a

  K. Tanaka, C. Zhao, N. Wang, S. Kubota, M. Kanehara, N. Kamijo, R. Ishikawa, H. Tasaki, M. Kanehara, B. Liu, M. Chen, S. Nakamura, T. Udatsu and C. Wang

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• Shijiahe red clay cup from Wujiafentou — Xie et al. (2024), Figure 5f

  Z. Xie, Y. Hu, S. Shan, Q.-Q. Lü, F. Yuan and T. Li

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• Flood clay over Liangzhu layers, Zhongjiagang — Liu et al. (2017), Supplementary Figure S6B

  B. Liu, N. Wang, M. Chen, X. Wu, D. Mo, J. Liu, S. Xu and Y. Zhuang

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• Jade-inlaid lacquered cup from Fanshan tomb 12, museum replica

  猫猫的日记本

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• Yaoshan altar display

  Siyuwj

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• Yu the Great on a Han-period stone relief

  三猎

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• Zhou-period stone chimes, Shandong Provincial Museum

  Gary Todd

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• Ceremonial Tube (Cong), 1915.630

  The Cleveland Museum of Art

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  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust.

• Grass-wrapped clay blocks in Laohuling dam — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 3B, after Lang et al. (2021)

  J. F. Lang, Q. G. Wang and N. Y. Wang; reproduced in Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang (2024)

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• Shimao East Gate excavation — Jaang et al. (2018), Figure 4a

  Li Jaang, Zhouyong Sun, Jing Shao and Min Li

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to the aerial excavation photograph and resized.

• Replica grass-wrapped clay blocks — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 6

  Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang

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• Huangchengtai terraces at Shimao — Rawson (2026), Figure 2

  Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology; reproduced in Jessica Rawson (2026)

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• Wooden spades from Zhongjiagang and Bianjiashan — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 4

  Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang

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• Wooden clog from Bianjiashan, Liangzhu Museum

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• Liangzhu Museum model of the walled city

  Siyuwj

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• Tangshan levee site: hill and pond

  Siyuwj

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• Jade yue blade from Fanshan tomb 12

  Siyuwj

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• Charred rice grains from Mojiaoshan — Tanaka et al. (2020), Figure 2a

  K. Tanaka, C. Zhao, N. Wang, S. Kubota, M. Kanehara, N. Kamijo, R. Ishikawa, H. Tasaki, M. Kanehara, B. Liu, M. Chen, S. Nakamura, T. Udatsu and C. Wang

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• Shijiahe red clay cup from Wujiafentou — Xie et al. (2024), Figure 5f

  Z. Xie, Y. Hu, S. Shan, Q.-Q. Lü, F. Yuan and T. Li

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  Cropped to panel f and resized.

• Flood clay over Liangzhu layers, Zhongjiagang — Liu et al. (2017), Supplementary Figure S6B

  B. Liu, N. Wang, M. Chen, X. Wu, D. Mo, J. Liu, S. Xu and Y. Zhuang

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  Extracted from the supplementary PDF, cropped to the flood-deposit photograph and resized.

• Jade-inlaid lacquered cup from Fanshan tomb 12, museum replica

  猫猫的日记本

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• Yaoshan altar display

  Siyuwj

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• Zhou-period stone chimes, Shandong Provincial Museum

  Gary Todd

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• Shimao East Gate, reconstruction from outside

  पाटलिपुत्र

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  Cropped to remove the title; resized.

• Grass-wrapped clay blocks in Laohuling dam — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 3B, after Lang et al. (2021)

  J. F. Lang, Q. G. Wang and N. Y. Wang; reproduced in Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang (2024)

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to panel B and resized.

• Shimao East Gate excavation — Jaang et al. (2018), Figure 4a

  Li Jaang, Zhouyong Sun, Jing Shao and Min Li

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to the aerial excavation photograph and resized.

• Replica grass-wrapped clay blocks — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 6

  Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to the interlocked and running block arrangements and resized.

• Huangchengtai terraces at Shimao — Rawson (2026), Figure 2

  Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology; reproduced in Jessica Rawson (2026)

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to the terrace photograph and resized.

• Wooden spades from Zhongjiagang and Bianjiashan — Zhuang et al. (2024), Figure 4

  Yijie Zhuang, Junping Yuan, Shuaiwei Liang, Minghui Chen and Ningyuan Wang

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  Extracted from the article PDF, cropped to the two wooden spades and resized.

• Uruk archaeological site at Warka

  SAC Andy Holmes (RAF)/MOD

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  Existing crop of the MOD photograph; resized for the film.

  Photo: SAC Andy Holmes (RAF)/MOD

• Banpo basin with human-face and fish designs

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Ancient city wall at Chengtoushan

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• Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines, 1:10 million

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• Natural Earth lakes, 1:50 million

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• Natural Earth land, 1:50 million

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• Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines, 1:50 million

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• Earth normal map

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• Earth day map

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• Shennong Cave SN17 isotope record — Zhang et al. (2021), Data file S1

  Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, Christoph Spötl, Yanjun Cai, Bin Liu, Gayatri Kathayat, Hanying Li, Ye Tian, Youwei Li, Jingyao Zhao, Lijuan Sha, Jiayu Lu, Binglin Meng, Xiaowen Niu, Xiyu Dong, Zeyuan Liang, Baoyun Zong, Youfeng Ning, Jianghu Lan and R. Lawrence Edwards

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  Original chart of SN17 COPRA ages and carbon-isotope values from the isotope-records sheet, restricted to 3000–1800 BCE. Ages converted from years BP to BCE; vertical axis inverted so wetter conditions appear higher; wet interval highlighted.

• Shimao sample and kinship tables — Chen et al. (2025), Supplementary Tables S1 and S3

  Zehui Chen, Jacob D. Gardner, Zhouyong Sun, E. Andrew Bennett, Qian Han, Xuesong Pei, Jing Shao, Han Shi, Wenjun Wang, Jiayang Xue, Fan Bai, Xiangming Dai, Nu He, Xiaoning Guo, Nan Di, Xiaowei Mao, Tianxiang Liu, Peng Cao, Feng Liu, Qingyan Dai, Xiaotian Feng, Wanjing Ping, Xiaohong Wu, Lizhao Zhang, Liang Chen and Qiaomei Fu

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  Sample counts and kinship facts redrawn as original silhouette charts and a simplified pedigree; main-text counts govern the combined elite-burial comparison.

• Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China — Chen et al. (2025), Figure 3

  Zehui Chen, Jacob D. Gardner, Zhouyong Sun, E. Andrew Bennett, Qian Han, Xuesong Pei, Jing Shao, Han Shi, Wenjun Wang, Jiayang Xue, Fan Bai, Xiangming Dai, Nu He, Xiaoning Guo, Nan Di, Xiaowei Mao, Tianxiang Liu, Peng Cao, Feng Liu, Qingyan Dai, Xiaotian Feng, Wanjing Ping, Xiaohong Wu, Lizhao Zhang, Liang Chen and Qiaomei Fu

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  Kinship relationships from the Zhaishan pedigree redrawn as a simplified original four-generation diagram; no original figure pixels reproduced.

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• Aerial View of the Ancient Village Landscape at the Liangzhu Cultural Site in Hangzhou China

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Selected sources from the film’s research and the publications behind its figures.

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2. https://doi.org/10.3868/s020-011-022-0010-5 ↗
3. https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/mu/frontend/pg/article/id/CI00159328 ↗
4. https://culture.people.com.cn/n/2015/0529/c22219-27075248.html ↗
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6. https://www.ehangzhou.gov.cn/2025-10/22/c_295418.htm ↗
7. https://www.lzmuseum.cn/MeiTiBaoDao/2026575163570.html ↗
8. https://history.sohu.com/a/1093490034_121107011 ↗
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10. https://en.chinaculture.org/a/202207/21/WS62d892dda310fd2b29e6d7fe_4.html ↗
11. https://news.inewsweek.cn/cover/2026-09-11/32057.shtml ↗
12. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.630 ↗
13. museum's 14 December 2021 Yaoshan excavation account ↗
14. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710516114 ↗
15. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.60 ↗
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21. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192513/1/1-s2.0-S0305440324000670-main.pdf ↗
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