Author: Capon, Edmund

Princes of jade
Date1973
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherE.P. Dutton
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberDS748 .C36 1973b
Description192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Note

Princes of jade / [by] Edmund Capon & William MacQuitty.
Bibliography: p. 188.

Contents: Prince of Han; China before the Han; from Confucius to Laozi; Court of the Son of Heaven; everyday life in Han China; Han imperialism: China and the West; art and culture: the age of Realism; legacy of Han; chronological lists.
Note: Color plates detail Han eternal fidelity lamp from Princess Dou Wan tomb; bronze artifacts, animals, wrestlers, jade burial suit of Prince Liu Sheng, Zhou dynasty pendants, tomb rubbing from Chengdu, Sichuan; relief molded bricks, silk spinning loom, weapons, spears, chariots; items from Fenshuiling, Shanxi, Shandong, Ordos, Wangdu, Hebei; Xiongnu art; flying horse from Leidai, Wuwei, Gansu, Eastern Han; Mawangdui.

SubjectChina--History--Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D. China--History--Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.--Tombs China--Antiquities--Pictorial works Excavations (Archaeology)--China--Changsha Shi
ISBN0525183493
LCCN73-14410