Treasures from the bronze age of China : an exhibition from the People's Republic of China.
Describes and interprets the spectacular works of art presented in the exhibition lent to 5 American museums by China. Not only describes some of the most important recent archaeological discoveries in China, but provides information about 1500 year Chinese.
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New York :
Metropolitan Museum of Art : Ballantine Books,
1980.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of the Bronze Age: the Erlitou culture period (first half of the second millennium B.C.)
- Vigorous development: the Zhenzhou phase (the Erligang period) (mid-second millennium B.C.)
- The spread of Shang culture: the appearance and growth of regional bronze-using cultures (15th-11-th centuries B.C.)
- A classical period in the bronze art: the High Yinxu phase (Anyang period) (about 1300-about 1030 B.C.)
- Unrestrained invention: the rise of the western Zhou dynasty (late 11th-early 10th century B.C.)
- Patterns and interlace: transformation of the bronze at in later western Zhou (late 10th century-771 B.C.)
- Variety and freshness: new departures in eastern Zhou bronze designs the spring autumn period (770-476 B.C.)
- Splendor and sophistication: the inlaid bronzes of the warring states period (475-220 B.C.)
- The waning of the bronze age: the western Han period (206 B.C.-A.D. 8)
- The terracotta army of the first emperor of Qin (221-206 B.C.).