Splendors of Imperial China : ǂb treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei /  Maxwell K. Hearn.

Exhibition catalog.
Jointly published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Taipei : National Palace Museum ; New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 1996.

The Cultural Heritage -- The Sung Dynasty: A New Cultural Universe -- The Yuan Dynasty: Under Mongol Rule -- The Ming Dynasty: Empire of Restoration -- The Ch'ing Dynasty: A New Orthodoxy.

The collection of the National Palace Museum is made up largely of the personal holdings of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95). Representing the artistic legacy of imperial China, it offers an unsurpassed view of Chinese civilization. The objects lavishly illustrated and described in this book, which include magnificent ritual bronzes, precious jades, monumental landscape paintings, and exquisite ceramics, are among the finest ever created. Published to accompany the exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei," the book takes the reader through the most significant periods of Chinese culture: its foundations in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, its flowering in the sophisticated world of the Sung dynasty, its exuberance during the Ming, and its technical brilliance under the Manchus. The author makes the unique beauty of this art accessible through comparisons of selected works and through discussion of their historical context.

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The world of Khubilai Khan : Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty / James C.Y. Watt ; with contributions by Maxwell K. Hearn [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.

Introduction / James C.Y. Watt -- I. Daily life. Dadu : great capital of the Yuan Dynasty / Zhixin Jason Sun -- The architecture of living and dying / Nancy S. Steinhardt -- Mongol dress in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Joyce Denney -- II. Religion. Buddhism and other "foreign" practices in Yuan China / Denise Patry Leidy -- The Daoist image : portrait of the immortal / Birgitta Augustin -- Quanzhou : cosmopolitan city of faiths / John Guy -- III. Painting and calligraphy. Painting and calligraphy under the Mongols / Maxwell K. Hearn -- IV. Textiles and decorative arts. Textiles in the Mongol and Yuan periods / Joyce Denney -- The decorative arts / James C.Y. Watt.

In 1215, the Mongols made their first major incursion into North China & initiated a period of extraordinary creativity in the arts that was encouraged by the confluence of many cultures & ethnic groups. This is a study of the art & culture produced by the Chinese & by the highly skilled craftsmen from Western & Central Asia.