Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes
Author: Jessica Rawson
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 372
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Ancient China and its Enemies
Author: Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-02-25
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781139431651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this 2002 book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien.
Ancient Chinese Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0870994832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaterial Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China
Author: Xiaolong Wu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1107134021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China's Warring States Period (476-221 BCE): the Zhongshan.
Pathways to the Afterlife
Author: Julia M. White
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780824815387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicely produced catalog for an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Features 43 ceramic and bronze jars, bowls, cups, and flasks, and traces the progression of Chinese design and decoration from its beginnings at the hands of Neolithic potters up to the creation of funerary wares by Han and Tang cra
Ancient Art from the Shumei Family Collection
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0870997734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996 and scheduled to travel to Los Angeles during 1997. The works are selected from the holdings of the Shumei Family, a religious organization based in Japan which holds to the belief that beautiful objects elevate the spirit and, therefore, that they were created to be shared (the group is currently constructing a new museum in Japan to house the collection). The works included here--antiquities from the Mediterranean, the Near East, and China--are beautifully presented in color photos, with text by a broad spectrum of curators, art historians, and conservators. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
Author: Michael Loewe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-03-13
Total Pages: 1192
ISBN-13: 9780521470308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Art Museum
Author: St. Louis Art Museum
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Cultural History of the Chinese Language
Author: Sharron Gu
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-12-22
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0786488271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in the development of language. This cultural history of Chinese demonstrates that the language grew and responded to its music and visual expression in a manner very similar to contemporary English and other Western languages. Within Chinese cultural history lie the answers to numerous questions that have haunted scholars for decades: How does language relate to worldview? What would happen to law after its language loses absolute binding power? How do music, visual, and theatrical images influence literature? By presenting Chinese not as a system of signs but as the history of a community, this study shows how language has expanded the scope of Chinese imagination and offers a glimpse into the future of younger languages throughout the world.
The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors
Author: Suzanne E. Cahill
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1950446441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a 2009 co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Volume I, The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Catalogue, includes an engaging foreword by Lloyd Cotsen, an overview of major Chinese dynasties and periods, and a brief history of Chinese bronze mirrors by Suzanne E. Cahill. This volume presents a detailed catalogue of the extensive Cotsen Collection through high-quality images and illustrations of the mirrors in their approximate chronological sequence. Volume II, a set of eleven scholarly essays, goes further to investigate these mirrors as a study collection. Guided by the conviction that this particular constellation of mirrors may lead to substantive insights that cannot easily be obtained otherwise, the leading scholars who contributed to this volume used the materials in Volume I as a point of departure for explorations of topics of their own choice. The publication of this two-volume set preceded an exhibition of the mirrors at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens and the return of the collection to China in recognition of that countrys rightful cultural patrimony.
