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  • Acknowledgments; Preliminary note; Foreword by He Haiyan; Part I: Background; Introduction; Chapter 1: cultural and historical context; Chapter 2: textiles and looms in ancient Chinese culture; Chapter 3: introduction to the looms and brocades of Southwest China; Part II: Field Research; Chapter 4: the Miao-Yao peoples; Chapter 5: the Daic (Tai-Kadai) peoples; Chapter 6: the Sinitic peoples; Part III: Analysis; Chapter 7: the evolution of the Asian loom; Appendices; Glossaries of loom and weaving terms; Bibliography; Index.