vii, 276 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Previous ed.: 1997 Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index Includes web resources
Contents:
Art in the tomb. Neolithic to Bronze Age: 2500-200 BCE The first empires: 221 BCE- 220 CE North and South: 220 CE 589 CE Tomb sculpture: 400- 650 CE Art at court. Tang to early Song: 618-960 CE Northern Song court art: 960-1127 CE Southern Song court art: 1127-1279 CE Yuan court art: 1279-1368 CE Ming court art: 1368-1644 CE Early Qing court art: 1644-c.1735 CE The Qinglong reign: 1736-1795 CE Late Qing court art: 1796-1911 CE Art in the temple. Early Buddhist art Buddhist art: c.450-c.580 Religious art of the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-906) dynasties Religious art of the Northern Song Dynasty: 960-1127 Southern Song religious art: 1127-1279 Buddhist monks and the Élite in the southern Song Buddhist art in the Yuan dynasty: 1279-1368 Religious painting of the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries Religious art of the Ming dynasty: 1368-1644 Religious art of the Qing dynasty:1644-1911 Art in the life of the élite. Calligraphy as an élite art Art and theory in the Northern Song The Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) The Ming dynasty: 1368-1644 The art and theory of Dong Qichang: 1555-1636 The seventeenth century and the Ming-Qing transition The Qing dynasty: 1644-1911 The nineteenth century Art in the market-place. The Song and Yuan dynasties: 960-1368 The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): painting The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): printing The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): textiles and crafts The amateur/professional problem in late Ming painting The Qing dynasty: 1644-1911 Prints and perspective Shanghai in the nineteenth century The republic of China Art in the People's Republic of China Art in China since the 1970s
