Author

Contributions

  • Yang, Xiaoneng. - Contributor
  • Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. - Contributor
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. - Contributor
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.) - Contributor

Publication

1999 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

146,000 words, Guess

Page Count

584 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing226736
  • Goodreads3270275

Classifications

  • DDC931/.0074/753
  • LCCDS 715 G65 1999

Description

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

ExhibitionsAntiquitiesCivilizationChina, antiquitiesPrehistoric peoplesPrehistoric AntiquitiesChina -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions

Other Editions

  • The golden age of Chinese archaeologyNational Gallery of Art1999-01-01

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