Download or read book The Dynasties and Treasures of China written by Bamber Gascoigne and published by Avery. This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynasties and Treasures of China written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tools and Treasures of Ancient China written by Candice Ransom and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever worn silk? Eaten Rice? Used a calendar? All these things came from ancient China. More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese invented tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Chinese lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them. Discover how they changed the world!
Download or read book The Treasures and Dynasties of China written by Bamber Gascoigne and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomb Treasures written by and published by Asian Art Museum . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning Chinese art book presents almost a hundred recently unearthed objects that offer a glimpse into the extraordinary wealth and artistic accomplishments of elite society during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE). These exquisite treasures are from newly discovered sites in the Jiangsu region of China and are made of gold, silver, jade, bronze, pottery, lacquer, and other refined materials. Masterworks include a full-length jade suit sewn with gold threads, an oversized coffin shrouded in jade, and a complete set of functional bronze bells. The book's texts explore a number of ideas about the lives and deaths of Western Han royalty.
Download or read book When China Ruled the Seas written by Louise Levathes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.
Download or read book The Odyssey of China s Imperial Art Treasures written by Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ringing Thunder written by Caron Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasures of the Chinese Scholar written by Jing Pei Fang and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents detailed commentary on the craftsmanship and motifs of the implements associated with the Chinese scholar's studio. These treasures - including brushes, inkstones, waterdroppers, toggles, figurines and scholar's rocks - embody the shared wisdom, traditions and values of the Chinese literati who governed China for more than two millennia. An understanding of the symbolism with which these objects are so artfully embellished is necessary for an understanding of classical Chinese civilization.
Download or read book Gilded Splendor written by Hsueh-man Shen and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major volume to explore one of China's most influential yet little known dynasties which brings to life one of China's forgotten empires and its unique culture.
Download or read book Treasures of China written by John D. Chinnery and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries China has intrigued and entranced Westerners. From Marco Polo's travels onwards, China's heritage of thousands of years of continuous civilisation has long inspired awestruck respect in visitors, while its wide-ranging achievements, both artistic and intellectual, have retained the power to amaze and enthral. Treasures of China presents, in stunning colour photographs, a vivid portrait of this distinguished civilisation and its great treasures - tracing the imperial kingdom's history through its dynasties of rulers, from the Shang and Zhou at the dawn of antiquity through to the Qing at the onset of the modern age. The book looks at each dynasty in turn, traces its developments in religion, art and culture, and examines its legacy of artefacts and monuments. An authoritative commentary sets the breathtaking creations of Chinese artists and craftsmen in their historical and artistic contexts. Treasures of China illustrates beautiful examples of metalwork, silk weaving, painting, jade carving, manuscript illumination, calligraphy, ceramics and much more - wonderful highlights of arguably the most exciting culture in the world.
Download or read book Treasures of Ancient China Chinese Discoveries and the World Social Studies 6th Grade Children s Geography Cultures Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese have always been innovative. In fact, their ancestors can be credited for major historical discoveries that forever changed the course of history. Among these discoveries were the compass, the manufacture of paper, gunpowder, tea, and woodblock printing. Read more about the treasures of Ancient China. Grab a copy today!
Download or read book Treasures of China written by Michael Ridley and published by New York : Arco Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Art Treasures Chin Dynasty to the period of Northern and Southern Dynasties written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperors of China written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Stonehenge Press (VA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and lavish photographs present the artistic treasures of Ch'in Shih Huang-ti, first Chinese emperor, and his successors.
Download or read book Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting written by William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasures from China written by David Armentrout and published by Rourke Educational Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the history and culture of China through artifacts and ancient treasures that reveal how people lived and what traditions and beliefs they followed.
