The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China

by Yang, Xiaoneng; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

• ISBN13: 9780894682452
• ISBN10: 0894682458
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Natl Gallery of Art

Summary

This introduction to more than 200 masterpieces from the period 5000 BC to the 10th century AD uncovered in China that confirms archaeologists' conclusion that Chinese civilization and art flowered throughout ancient China. 200+ color illustrations.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	8	(10)
Forewords	10	(5)
Lenders to the Exhibition	15	(1)
Acknowledgments	16	(2)
Archaeological Sites	18	(2)
Chronology	20	(2)
Note to the Reader	22	(3)
Introduction: A History of Modern Chinese Archaeology	25	(26)
Xiaoneng Yang
Catalogue
The Foundation of Chinese Civilization: Late Prehistoric China c. 5000--2000 BCE	51	(88)
The Epic of the Three Dynasties: Bronze Age China c. 2000--771 BCE	139	(128)
The Flamboyance of Eastern Zhou: Chu and Other Cultures c. 770--221 BCE	267	(96)
The Grandeur of Empires: Early Imperial China 221 BCE--924 CE	363	(153)
Afterword	516	(3)
Su Bai
New Understandings of Chinese Prehistory	519	(8)
Zhang Zhongpei
The Bronze Age of China	527	(10)
Zou Heng
Issues Concerning the Formation, Development, and Demise of Chu Culture	537	(12)
Yu Weichao
The Han and Tang Dynasties	549	(7)
Xu Pingfang
Concordance	556	(8)
Bibliography	564	(16)
Index	580