Book

Treasures from the bronze age of China : an exhibition from the People's Republic of China.

First edition.

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Ballantine Books, 1980.

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

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.

Bronzes, Chinese -- To 221 B.C. -- Exhibitions.

Bronzes, Chinese -- Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- Exhibitions.

Terra-cotta sculpture, Chinese -- Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Great bronze age of China

"Adapted from text in the exhibition's scholarly catalog, The great bronze age of China."

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.).

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