Encyclopaedia Sinica
Encyclopaedia Sinica

Author: Samuel M.A. Couling

Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9004213465

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Following the tumultuous events in China in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there was an urgent need for a reliable reference work surveying all aspects of contemporary China, given that existing reference works and scholarly monographs became rapidly obsolete. Couling’s work, published in 1917, covered so much ground with such accuracy and consistency that it has become established as an essential tool for scholars wishing to understand how the new China was seen and interpreted at the time.

Asiatic Review
Asiatic Review

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Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13:

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Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Chinese Jade Throughout Ages
Chinese Jade Throughout Ages

Author: Stanley Charles Nott

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1462909663

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This classic guide to Chinese jade is of great interest to art collectors and casual readers alike. First published in 1936 and since then a collector's item of increasing rarity, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages comprises a review of the characteristics, decorations, folklore, and symbolism of this esteemed mineral that has always held a proud place among gems of the world. The book presents a full descriptive account of the significance and meaning of the carvings produced in this prize stone by Chinese craftsmen from the earliest times, through the Chou and succeeding dynasties, down to the twentieth century. The text is illustrated with a magnificent series of more than 350 reproductions in color, black and white, and line drawings of choice pieces selected from the chief Asian, European, and American collections. In addition the Chinese art history book explains no only the wealth of symbolic designs used in the decoration of jade but also a large number of the marks and devices by which collectors identify the origin and the date of valued pieces.