Comprehensive study of the Shang and Zhou bronze vessel group
Author: Baojun Guo
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13:
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Sources of Western Zhou History
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1992-01-08
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0520910222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic structure of the royal court, and lawsuits among the gentry. Moreover, being cast in bronze, the inscriptions preserve exactly the contemporary script and language. Shaughnessy has written a meticulous and detailed work on the historiography and interpretation of these objects. By demonstrating how the inscriptions are read and interpreted, Shaughnessy makes accessible in English some of the most important evidence about life in ancient China.
Ancient Chinese Bronzes
Author: Chengyuan Ma
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a wealth of archaeological data, this study gives a succinct yet comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese bronzes. The book discusses the alloy and mining processes, the casting techniques, and the evolving historical and social background over a two-thousand year period during which the tools, weapons, vessels, musical instruments, and other bronze pieces were produced and used.
Documentation of Late Shang Zhou dynasty Ritual Bronze Vessels with Inscriptions Found in the Philippines, Part 1: Wine Vessels
Author: J.G. Cheock
Publisher: J.G. Cheock
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book in a series wherein Late Shang to Zhou dynasty ritual bronze vessels with inscriptions that have been found in the Philippines will be documented including: details, background, photographs, inscriptions, relevant and historical information. Part 1 focuses on bronze ritual wine vessels with inscriptions that have been unearthed in the Philippines.
The Great Bronze Age of China
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0870992260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.
Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes
Author: Robert W. Bagley
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMax Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated Western studies of the bronzes. Revisiting a controversy that was ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully understood, Robert Bagley shows its methodological implications to be profound. Starting with a close reading of the work of Karlgren, he uses an analogy with biological taxonomy to clarify questions of method and to distinguish between science and the appearance of science. Then, turning to Loehr, he provides the rationale for an art history that is concerned above all with constructing a meaningful history of creative events, one that sees the intentionality of designers and patrons as the driving force behind stylistic change. In a concluding chapter he analyzes the concept of style, arguing that many classic confusions in art historical theorizing arise from a failure to recognize that style is not a property of objects. Addressed not just to ancient China specialists or historians of Chinese art, this book uses Loehr's work on bronzes as a case study for exploring central issues of art history. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the analysis of visual materials.
Imprints of Kinship
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9629966395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent discoveries of bronze ritual vessels from ancient China provide the ground for this collection of essays, which focus in particular on the nature and patterns of family lineages as seen from these artifacts found in tombs throughout north China. Based on careful readings of the inscriptions on the bronze vessels, the editor and his eight contributors reconstruct the genealogies, kinship structures, political identities, and relationship networks of leading families and individuals from BronzeAge China. The rich scholarship also contributes to our understanding of the archaeology, chronology, warfare, and legal structures of ancient China. "The bronze inscriptions from ancient China are far too important to be left to the specialized archaeologists alone. Professor Shaughnessy and his group of leading practitioners of the arcane art of teasing out the meaning implicit and explicit in these extraordinarily difficult--often only recently discovered--inscriptions allow us to look over their shoulders as they struggle valiantly with some of the richest sources from the earliest stages of Chinese intellectual ethnography and literary culture. This volume provides the kind of handson and welldocumented exploratory philology that opens up a wide field of general discussion concerning an early formative stage of Chinese civilization." --Christoph Harbsmeier, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, University of Oslo
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M Sackler Collections
Author: Robert W. Bagley
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9780810944657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bronze ritual vessel, the defining artifact of early Chinese civilization, is the subject of this monumental study of Shang ritual bronzes in the Arthur M. SAckler Collections. A Comprehensive introduction, the most thorough treatment of Shang bronzes in any language, lays the foundation for 104 catalogue entries, many of which explore in greater detail specific problems in casting technology, epigraphy, vessel typology, and provincial bronze styles. COlor plates of all the Sackler bronzes are supplemented by rubbings, details, and more than 500 comparative illustrations.THroughout the book the author has made systematic use of the astonishing archaeological discoveries of the last 15 years, discoveries which include major finds of pre-Anyang bronzes and the unprecedented excavation in 1976 of an intact Shang royal tomb. NO less revealing, however, are technical studies of Chinese bronzes carried out in the West, including studies of the bronzes catalogued here, for Dr. BAgley shows technical factors to have played a crucial role in the development of the Shang artistic tradition. BY giving special attention to the formative stages of the Shang bronze industry, he is able to trace in precise detail the complex interaction of technique and design which led from modest beginnings at Erlitou to the spectacular bronzes of the Anyang period (c.1300-1030 BC). IN the spirit of Jean Bony's remark that "each moment has its right to be considered ultimate," pre-Anyang bronzes are treated not as stepping stones to the more familiar bronzes of Anyang times but as objects deserving attention in their own right. NEvertheless Anyang bronzes become at once less familiar and more intelligible when viewed in a developmental perspective, and the strict historical approach taken here calls into question current interpretations of their decoration. TEn years in the making, this book will be of interest not only to students of Chinese archaeology but also to historians of technology, to art historians interested in the process of artistic invention, and to archaeologists concerned with the comparative study of ancient civilizations.
Understanding Ancient Chinese Bronzes
Author: Christian Deydier
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9782955416006
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