The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection Of Chinese Bronze Mirrors

Author : Suzanne E. Cahill
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781950446445

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The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors by Suzanne E. Cahill Pdf

The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a 2009 co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Volume I, The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Catalogue, includes an engaging foreword by Lloyd Cotsen, an overview of major Chinese dynasties and periods, and a brief history of Chinese bronze mirrors by Suzanne E. Cahill. This volume presents a detailed catalogue of the extensive Cotsen Collection through high-quality images and illustrations of the mirrors in their approximate chronological sequence. Volume II, a set of eleven scholarly essays, goes further to investigate these mirrors as a study collection. Guided by the conviction that this particular constellation of mirrors may lead to substantive insights that cannot easily be obtained otherwise, the leading scholars who contributed to this volume used the materials in Volume I as a point of departure for explorations of topics of their own choice. The publication of this two-volume set preceded an exhibition of the mirrors at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens and the return of the collection to China in recognition of that countrys rightful cultural patrimony.

Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bronze mirrors
ISBN : 0974516880

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The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors by Lothar von Falkenhausen Pdf

Author : K. E. Brashier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bronze mirrors
ISBN : UIUC:30112108517977

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The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors by K. E. Brashier Pdf

The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Volume I, The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Catalogue, includes an engaging foreword by Lloyd Cotsen, an overview of major Chinese dynasties and periods, and a brief history of Chinese bronze mirrors by Suzanne Cahill. This volume presents a detailed catalogue of the extensive Cotsen Collection through high-quality images and illustrations of the mirrors in their approximate chronological sequence. Volume II, a set of eleven scholarly essays, goes further to investigate these mirrors as a study collection. Guided by the conviction that this particular constellation of mirrors may lead to substantive insights that cannot easily be obtained otherwise, the leading scholars who contributed to this volume used the materials in Volume I as a point of departure for explorations of topics of their own choice. The resulting diversity of the chapters is notablewith coverage ranging from a discussion of Han mirror inscriptions as modular texts to an analysis of mirrors inlaid with mother of pearland the findings are as novel and stimulating as they are preliminary.

Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen,K. E. Brashier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bronze mirrors
ISBN : UIUC:30112108517985

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The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors by Lothar von Falkenhausen,K. E. Brashier Pdf

The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Volume I, The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Catalogue, includes an engaging foreword by Lloyd Cotsen, an overview of major Chinese dynasties and periods, and a brief history of Chinese bronze mirrors by Suzanne Cahill. This volume presents a detailed catalogue of the extensive Cotsen Collection through high-quality images and illustrations of the mirrors in their approximate chronological sequence. Volume II, a set of eleven scholarly essays, goes further to investigate these mirrors as a study collection. Guided by the conviction that this particular constellation of mirrors may lead to substantive insights that cannot easily be obtained otherwise, the leading scholars who contributed to this volume used the materials in Volume I as a point of departure for explorations of topics of their own choice. The resulting diversity of the chapters is notablewith coverage ranging from a discussion of Han mirror inscriptions as modular texts to an analysis of mirrors inlaid with mother of pearland the findings are as novel and stimulating as they are preliminary.

Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004352728

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Lost Knowledge by Benjamin B. Olshin Pdf

Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories investigates early texts that speak of sophisticated technologies millennia ago that became obscured over time or were destroyed with the civilizations that had created them.

Author : Martin J. Powers,Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118885208

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A Companion to Chinese Art by Martin J. Powers,Katherine R. Tsiang Pdf

Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history. Provides an exceptional collection of essays promoting a comparative understanding of China’s long record of cultural production Brings together an international team of scholars from East and West, whose contributions range from an overview of pre-modern theory, to those exploring calligraphy, fine painting, sculpture, accessories, and more Articulates the direction in which the field of Chinese art history is moving, as well as providing a roadmap for historians interested in comparative study or theory Proposes new and revisionist interpretations of the literati tradition, which has long been an important staple of Chinese art history Offers a rich insight into China’s social and political institutions, religious and cultural practices, and intellectual traditions, alongside Chinese art history, theory, and criticism

Author : Edward Shaughnessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501517105

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Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory by Edward Shaughnessy Pdf

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.

Author : Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781493965212

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Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology by Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen Pdf

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.

Author : Roderick Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197619

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Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State by Roderick Campbell Pdf

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

Author : Oliver Julian Todd,Milan Rupert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Bronze mirrors
ISBN : UOM:39015027885378

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Chinese Bronze Mirrors by Oliver Julian Todd,Milan Rupert Pdf

Author : Alice Yao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190493790

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The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China by Alice Yao Pdf

Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC. In the first century BC, Han imperial conquest reduced local power and began a process of cultural assimilation. Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, this book examines the classic study of imperial rule as a confrontation between different political temporalities. The author provides an archaeological account of the southwest where Bronze Age landscape formations and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing warrior cultures and kingly genealogies. In particular, the book illustrates how mourners used funerals and cemetery mounds to transmit social biographies and tribal affiliations across successive generations. Han incorporation thus entangled the orders of state time with the generational cycles of local factions, foregrounding the role of time in the production of power relations in imperial frontiers. The book extends approaches to empires to show how prehistoric time frames continue to shape the futures of frontier subjects despite imperial efforts to unify space and histories.

Author : Sophia-Karin Psarras
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789693263

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Sources of Han Décor: Foreign Influence on the Han Dynasty Chinese Iconography of Paradise (206 BC-AD 220) by Sophia-Karin Psarras Pdf

Using archaeological data to examine the development of Han dynasty Chinese art (206 BC-AD 220), this book focusses on the iconography of paradise. Influence from the Chinese Bronze Age is discussed along with a surprisingly profound debt to Greece, the Near East and the steppe.

Author : Susan Whitfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957664

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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas by Susan Whitfield Pdf

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.

Author : Nicole Boivin,Michael D. Frachetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429801

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Globalization in Prehistory by Nicole Boivin,Michael D. Frachetti Pdf

Challenges contemporary understandings of 'globalization' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.

Author : Anke Hein,Christopher J. Foster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000872880

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Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage by Anke Hein,Christopher J. Foster Pdf

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage—those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China’s past. Including contributions from scholars around the world reflecting on a range of different materials and time periods, Understanding Authenticity emphasizes the situatedness and fluidity of authenticity concepts. Attitudes toward authenticity change over time and place, and vary between communities and object types, among stakeholders in China as they do elsewhere. The book examines how "authenticity" relates to four major aspects of cultural heritage in China—art and material culture; cultural heritage management and preservation; living and intangible heritage; and texts and manuscripts—with individual contributions engaging in a critical and interdisciplinary conversation that weaves together heritage management, art history, archaeology, architecture, tourism, law, history, and literature. Moving beyond conceptual issues, the book also considers the practical ramifications for work in cultural heritage management, museums, and academic research. Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage provides an opportunity for reflection on the contingencies of authenticity debates - not only in relation to China, but also anywhere around the world. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including heritage studies, Asian studies, art history, museum studies, history, and archaeology.