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

Washington D.C., Kansas City, and New Haven,: National Gallery of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 1999. 584 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 32 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 September 1999 to 2 January 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 February to 7 May 2000; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 17 June to 11 September 2000. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Previous owner's signature/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: A History of Modern Chinese Archaeology, by 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 or Empires: Early Imperial China 221 B.C.E.-924 C.E. Afterword, by Su Bai. New Understandings of Chinese Prehistory, by Zhang Zhongpei. The Bronze Age of China, by Zou Heng. Issues Concerning the Formation, Development, and Demise of Chu Culture, by Yu Weichao. The Han and Tang Dynasties, by Xu Pingfang.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.