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.

Map of Imperial China -- The Early Empires 221 BC-AD 220. Qin Shihuangdi unifies feudal states thus creating the Chinese empire; the Qin dynasty collapses; the Han re-establish, expand and consolidate the imperial system; the decline and fall of the Han dynasty. -- The Great Wall -- The Terracotta Army of the first emperor of China -- Western Han tombs -- Stone sculpture -- The silk roads -- Tomb figurines. -- Confusion, Reunification, and the Golden Age AD 220-907. The Three Kingdoms and the start of the "Period of Disunion" in which China is divided into the Northern and Southern Dynasties; Southern Dynasties at Nanjing fend off northern invaders; the reunification of north and south under the Sui and the Tang. -- Buddhism -- The northern dynasties -- The Grand Canal -- Horses -- Tang Mausolea -- Chang'an -- Buddhist art and architecture. -- Chaos, Diplomacy, and Invasion AD 907-1368. Half a century of instability during the Five Dynasties period; peace and intense intellectual and artistic activity under the Song; the Jin kingdom invades northern China forcing the Song south; Mongol Mongol incursions; Khubilai Khan becomes emperor of China. -- Northern Song imperial tombs -- Song painting -- The Mongols. -- Revival and Collapse AD 1368-1911. The Ming Dynasty restores the Chinese imperial tradition; imperial capital moved to Beijing, the Forbidden City built; Manchus invade Beijing after Ming dynasty collapses; Manchus establish the last imperial dynasty, the Qing; European contact, internal rebellion and the fall of imperial China. -- The Forbidden City in Beijing -- Maritime expeditions -- The Temple of Heaven -- The Ming tombs -- Jesuits in China -- Ming porcelain -- The Jesuits and the Summer Palace -- Commercial trade and expansion -- Macartney's embassy -- The Opium War --The Boxer Rebellion.

"This book traces the history of China from 221 B.C. through 1911 A.D., describing the political and social challenges and contributions of each ruler. Spanning over 2,000 years, from the great 'First Emperor', buried with his terracotta army in the 3rd century BC, to the last emperor, enthroned in the Forbidden City in 1911, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors details the fascinating lives and personalities of all 157 Chinese emperors. In addition to timelines detailing the major events of every reign, this book includes each emperor's name in Chinese calligraphic script, and a datafile for each emperor listing key information, such as name at birth and imperial wives and concubines."--OCLC note.

Contents: Introduction / Arnold Toynbee -- Signs and meanings: Chinese writing through four millenia / E. Glahn -- The middle kingdom: Chinese politics and society from the Bronze Age to the Manchus / D.C. Twichett -- Beyond the wall: China's relations with her northern neighbors / Owen Lattimore -- The Path to wisdom: Chinese philosophy and religion / Wing Tsit-chan -- The empirical tradition: science and technology in China / S. Nakayama -- Worlds and language: the Chinese literary tradition / James J.Y. Liu -- Chinese culture overseas: Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Tibet / Zenryu Tsukamoto -- Feudal Japan: Politics and society from the eighth century to 1868 / Charles D. Sheldon -- Cult and Creed: Religion in Japan before the Meiji / Carmen Blacker -- A literature of the court and people: Japanese poetry, drama and the novel before the Meiji / Donald Keene -- Europe goes East: the first impact of the West on China and Japan / Paul A. Cohen -- A new role for Japan: the Meiji revolution and its sequel / Y. Toriumi -- Rebellion, reform, and revolution: China, Korea and Vietnam in the modern world / Jean Chesneaux -- Chronology.

***Graphic resource: Chinese calligraphy, bronzes, rubbings, scientific instruments, Chinese mathematics, astronomy, Christian century in Japan, Jesuits, Matteo Ricci, Zheng He, credential tablets, maps, history of writing, popular religion, gods, door-gods, Chong Kui, Guan Yu, and many other details. An overlooked item, with many interesting graphics, including a page from the Ricci-Ruggieri Portuguese-Chinese dictionary.

v. 1. Introductory orientations.--v. 2. History of scientific thought.--v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth.--v. 4. Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics, with the collaboration of Wang Ling and the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics with the collaboration of Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-Djen.--v. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology: pt. 1. Paper and printing / by Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 6. Military technology, missiles and sieges. pt. 7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic. pt. 9. Textile technology, spinning and reeling / by Dieter Kuhn. pt. 13. Mining / by Peter J. Golas.--v. 6. Biology and biological technology. pt. 1. Botany. pt. 2. Agriculture / by Francesca Bray. pt. 3. Agro-industries and forestry / by Christian Daniels, Nicholas K. Menzies. pt. 5. Fermentations and food science / by H.T. Huang. pt. 6. Medicine -- v. 7. Language and logic / by Christoph Harbsmeier. pt. 1-
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/54004723.html
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam022/54004723.html (above for v. 6, pt. 5).

Title in red and black.
This work was to consist of three volumes. The 2d vol, printed complete Madrid 1679, is supposed to have been suppressed by the Spanish inquisition. A copy without t.p., containing p. 1-668, is described in the Bibliotheca grenvilliana, p. 484. Another copy, in the same incomplete condition, quoted by Quaritch under no 61 of his Rough list no. 24, is now in the possession of H. Cordier. The 3d vol. was never published. cf. Cordier, Bibliotheca sinica, 2d ed., Paris, 1904; and Medina, Bibl. hisp. americana.

Tratado I. Del origen, nombre, sitio, grandezas, riquezas, y singularidades de la gran China.--tratado II. Del modo, y disposicion del govierno del Chino, de sus sectas, y de las cosas mas memorables de su historia.--tratado III. Escriuense algunas sentencias politicas, y morales del filosofo Kung Fu Zu.--tratado IV. Del libro Ming, Sin, Pao, Kien, esto es, Espejo prècioso del alma.--tratado V. De la secta literaria.--tratado VI. De los viages, y navegaciones, que el autor deste libro ha hecho.--tratado VII. Qvaesita missionariorvm Chinae, sev Sinarvm Sacrae congregationi de propaganda fide exhibita. Cvm responsis ad ea: decreto eiusdem Sacrae congregationis approbatis.

Contents 第1篇. Zhongguo wenhuashi xulun 中國文化史序論 -- 第2篇. Zhongguo zhi minzu yu shehui 中國之民族與社會, 上下 -- 第3篇. Zhongguo zhi zhengzhi yu jingji 中國之政治與經濟, 上下 -- 第4篇. Zhongguo zhi dianzhang zhidu 中國之典章制度, 上中下 -- 第5篇. Zhongguo zhi xueshu sixiang 中國之學術思想, 上下.

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