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Book Chinese bronze age weapons  by max loehr

Download or read book Chinese bronze age weapons by max loehr written by Max Loehr and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons  The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum  Peking  By Max Loehr   A catalogue  With a bibliography

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum Peking By Max Loehr A catalogue With a bibliography written by Palace Museum (PEKING) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons written by Gu gong bo wu yuan and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons written by Max Loehr and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons  The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum  Peking

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum Peking written by Palace Museum (Peking) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Age Weapons written by Max Löhr and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes

Download or read book Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes written by Robert W. Bagley and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated Western studies of the bronzes. Revisiting a controversy that was ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully understood, Robert Bagley shows its methodological implications to be profound. Starting with a close reading of the work of Karlgren, he uses an analogy with biological taxonomy to clarify questions of method and to distinguish between science and the appearance of science. Then, turning to Loehr, he provides the rationale for an art history that is concerned above all with constructing a meaningful history of creative events, one that sees the intentionality of designers and patrons as the driving force behind stylistic change. In a concluding chapter he analyzes the concept of style, arguing that many classic confusions in art historical theorizing arise from a failure to recognize that style is not a property of objects. Addressed not just to ancient China specialists or historians of Chinese art, this book uses Loehr's work on bronzes as a case study for exploring central issues of art history. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the analysis of visual materials.

Book Weapons in Late Shang  c 1250 1050 BCE  China

Download or read book Weapons in Late Shang c 1250 1050 BCE China written by Qin Cao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual explores the large quantities of bronze and jade weapons, such as dagger-axes, spears and arrows, found at the World Heritage site of Yinxu, the late Shang capital located near today’s Anyang city in central China. Qin Cao’s innovative research presents new insights into these weapons, moving beyond perceptions of them being primarily symbols of power and rank. Through the lens of weapons, this book argues for the significance of martial prowess and leadership within late Shang society. The author considers Shang weapons from an object biographical perspective, tracing their life histories for the first time. This book synthesises archaeological data, scientific analyses, and inscriptions on oracle bones and bronzes, uncovering a more nuanced understanding of the complex roles weapons played in society. What traces of evidence can be detected on weapons that demonstrate their ability to cause bodily harm? Why were tens of thousands of weapons placed in tombs? What led to certain individuals, including high-ranking royal females, being buried with weapons? This book will be of interest to academics, students (both undergraduates and postgraduates), and researchers in archaeology, particularly those focused on China, East Asia, or comparative studies, as well as a more general readership in Chinese archaeology.

Book The Shang Ko

Download or read book The Shang Ko written by James Mellon Menzies and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arts of China

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  • Author : Michael Sullivan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1984-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520049185
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Arts of China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this book presents a fascinating and balanced picture of Chinese art from the Stone Age to the present day. The author concerns himself not only with art, but also with Chinese philosophy, religion, and the realm of ideas.

Book The Bronze Weapons of the Late Shang Period

Download or read book The Bronze Weapons of the Late Shang Period written by Fang-Mei Chen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City

Download or read book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City written by Paul Wheatley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer.

Book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City  Volume 1

Download or read book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City Volume 1 written by Paul Wheatley and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer. Paul Wheatley was professor and chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was most famous for his work dealing with comparative urban civilization. Some of his books include The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, 7th to 10th Centuries; Nagara and Commandery, Origins of the Southeast Asian Urban Traditions; and The Management of Success: The Moulding of Modern Singapore (with K. S. Sandhu).

Book Chinese Bronze Weapons

Download or read book Chinese Bronze Weapons written by Max Löhr and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short History of Chinese Art

Download or read book A Short History of Chinese Art written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: