Chinese art & culture / Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis Vinograd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-429) and index.

Prehistoric roots: late Neolithic cultures -- The early Bronze Age: Shang and western Zhou -- The late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou -- The first empires: Qin and Han -- Age of the Dharma: the period of division -- A new Imperial state: Sui and Tang -- Technologies and cultures of the song -- Official, personal, and urban arts of the Yuan to middle Ming -- Art systems and circulations: late Ming to Middle Qing -- Identity and community in 19th- and 20th-century Chinese art.

An illustrated chronicle of Chinese art from the late Neolithic period through the twentieth century, which discusses artistic reflections of politics, material culture, belief systems, and more, and includes over one hundred color plates, eight maps, and a time line.