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Author : Gu gong bo wu yuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Museums
ISBN : UOM:39015063071040
Author : Jian Li,Li He,Hou-mei Sung,Ma Shengnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : UCSD:31822041298415
Author : Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot,David Shambaugh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295801384
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures traces the three-thousand-year history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous story of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and conquest, and civil war, resulting in valiant attempts to rescue and preserve the collection. Throughout history, different Chinese regimes used the imperial collection to bolster their own political legitimacy, domestically and internationally. The narrative follows the gradual formation of the Peking Palace Museum in 1925, then its hasty fragmentation as large parts of the collection were moved perilously over long distances to escape wartime destruction, and finally its formal division into what are today two Palace Museums-one in Beijing, the other in Taipei. Enlivened by the personalities of those who cared for the collection, this textured account of the imperial treasures highlights magnificent artworks and their arduous transit through politics, war, and diplomatic reconciliations. Over the years, control of the collections has been fiercely contested, from early dynasties through Mongol and Japanese invaders to Nationalist and Communist rivals- a saga that continues today. This first book-length investigation of the imperial collections will be of great interest to China scholars, historians, and Chinese art specialists. Its tales of palace intrigue will fascinate a wide variety of readers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:903692008
Author : François Fourcade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:251628837
From the Imperial Palace collections.
Author : Grace Wong,Eck Kheng Goh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art objects
ISBN : UOM:39076001453013
Author : 國立故宮博物院,Wen Fong,James C. Y. Watt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810964945
A major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Wen-chien Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0888545002
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351624893
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985352648
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Located in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City served as the palace for the emperor of China from 1420 to 1912 CE, a period encompassing the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was home to the celestial leaders of China, men that possessed the Mandate of Heaven. A total of 24 emperors lived and ruled from the vast and magnificent complex for almost 500 years, until the last Chinese dynasty was overthrown in 1912 with the abdication of Emperor Xuantong, more commonly known as Puyi. Known also as the Forbidden Palace, or amongst contemporary Chinese as the "Former Palace," the complex was first given its name in 1576. The Forbidden City was the home of many thousands of governmental staff, female servants and concubines, eunuchs, soldiers, and kitchen staff, and where their entire lives were built. Nonetheless, entrance to it from the outside was forbidden to all but the emperor, his court, and his relations. Without the permission of the emperor, access to or from the heart of the empire was impossible, but what was once inaccessible is now one of the most visited institutions in the world. Today, the Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage site, operated as the largest museum in the world and located in the heart of the capital of the world's most populous country. The Forbidden City: The History of the Chinese Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing examines the history of the palace. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Forbidden City like never before.
Author : Geremie Barmé
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674027794
Barm peels away the veneer of power, secrecy, inscrutability, and passions of imperial China, to provide a new and original history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City: an extraordinary attraction, which encapsulates much of the country's history. ("Sunday Telegraph").
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : IND:30000101101966
This lively book introduces the reader to the colourful characters who inhabited the Forbidden City, and vividly evokes the strictly prescribed rituals that made up life between its walls. From the strong intellectual and political character of the Ming dynasty through the robust warrior spirit of the Qing, Frances Wood's thematic tour recalls the most intriguing and exciting moments - whether official or domestic - of that extraordinary era.
Author : Nancy Zeng Berliner,Mark C. Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : UOM:39076002899933
This exhibition catalogue offers a magnificent, thorough study of 90 objects from the Qianlong Garden in Beijing's Forbidden City. Objects include wall paintings, furniture, architectural fittings, ceramics, and stone. They have been on public view infrequently and only in the Qianlong Garden, which is now undergoing a 20-year restoration under the lead of the World Monuments Fund and Beijing's Palace Museum. The garden is a two-acre tract consisting of 27 buildings, their contents, and a mature landscape--the whole complex is characterized as a "multi-layered artwork." Following an introduction by Elliott (Harvard), Berliner (Peabody Essex Museum) presents the general characteristics of scholar and emperor gardens, and the early gardens of Emperor Qianlong, along with a minute analysis of the Qianlong Garden. Yuan Hongqi (Palace Museum), Liu Chang (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing), and Henry Tzu Ng (World Monuments Fund) treat the garden's subsequent history. Interlaced throughout are superb illustrations of the objects and the garden, followed by a catalogue with small illustrations of objects, and their curatorial data; a chronology; a comparative, annotated time line; maps; glossary; and Chinese pronunciation guide. This must-buy publication is a model of sensitive scholarship that places the garden and its objects in an understandable, universal context. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by D. K. Haworth.
Author : May Holdsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000067704324
Halls of dazzling glory or an 'ill-omened pile of buildings' A sight unforgettably lovely or merely commonplace? Long shrouded in mystery, Beijing's Forbidden City has provoked all these conflicting descriptions. Built to a grand scale, its design determined by the art of fengsui, theForbidden City was at once a palace and a prison. Good luck did not always bless its denizens, and life was cold, lonely and stifling for many of the emperors, empresses, and imperial concubines who lived within it. Today the palace receives many visitors, yet the realities of imperial life in theForbidden City are stil little known. This illustrated introduction exposes the private world hidden behind imperial walls, bringing to light mundane processes of its every day life. Ritual procedures and domestic arrangements, wedding, births and deaths, the practical concerns of heating,lighting, and cooking: each of these topics is explored in this unique portrait of one of Asia's premier historical and cultural sites.
Author : Xin Yang,Chʻeng-ju Chu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0963395998