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Summary:

Review: "In the last fifty years, archaeological discoveries have altered traditional beliefs on the formation and development of the civilization of ancient China. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies cover the period from 5000 BCE to the 10th-century C.E. presenting more than 170 masterpieces in jade, stone, ivory bone, pottery, bronze, lacquer, bamboo, gold, and silver. Together these astonishing objects demonstrate that highly advanced artistic cultures originated in and flowered throughout a vast area. Earlier generations of scholars believed that a much smaller area, the Yellow River Valley, was the principal source and locus of Chinese civilization."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A History of Modern Chinese Archaeology / Xiaoneng Yang
• Catalogue. The Foundation of Chinese Civilization: Late Prehistoric China c. 5000-2000 B.C.E. The Epic of the Three Dynasties: Bronze Age China c. 2000-771 B.C.E. The Flamboyance of Eastern Zhou: Chu and other Cultures c. 770-221 B.C.E. The Grandeur of Empires: Early Imperial China 221 B.C.E.-924 C.E. Afterword / Su Bai. New Understandings of Chinese Prehistory / Zhang Zhongpei. The Bronze Age of China / Zou Heng. Issues Concerning the Formation, Development, and Demise of Chu Culture / Yu Weichao. The Han and Tang Dynasties / Xu Pingfang.

Contributors:

Yang, Xiaoneng

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

China — Antiquities — Exhibitions

Antiquities, Prehistoric — China — Exhibitions

China — Civilization — Exhibitions

Prehistoric peoples — China — Exhibitions

Antiquities

Antiquities, Prehistoric

Civilization

Prehistoric peoples

China

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Errata slip included.
Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 September 1999-2 January 2000 ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 February-7 May 2000 ; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 17 June-11 September 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-579) and index.

Physical Description:

584 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm

Call Numbers:

DS715 .G65 1999

ISBNs:

0300081324 (hard)
9780300081329 (hard)
0894682458 (soft)
9780894682452 (soft)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99016620

OCLC Numbers:

41606205