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| Archaeological Finds from Han Tombs at Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
GUANGZHOU MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG. Stock ID: 98358 Text in Chinese and English. Black and white and some colour photographic illustrations, 260pp, bibliography, paperback, quarto. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 98358) ... more |
AU$45.00 |
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Warriors of Ancient China.
HOLDSWORTH, MAY. Stock ID: 79583 Map, colour photographic illustrations, 103pp, 16mo (10cms x 19cms), dustjacket. "The entombed terracotta army of China's First Emperor, accidentally discovered in 1974, was hailed as 'the archaeological find of the century'. What manner of man built so grandly for the afterlife? Over 2,000 years after his death, Qin Shihuangdi is still vilified as one of the great destroyers of history. Yet, by annihilating the warring states, he unified China; while burning books and executing scholars, he also standardised the written script; after dismantling fortifications and city walls, he ordered the Great Wall to be built. Concisely written and handsomely illustrated, this is an account of the paradoxical tyrant and reformer behind that astonishing mausoleum." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 79583) ... more |
AU$22.00 |
| Journal of the Hong Kong Archaelogical Society. XII. 1986 - 88.
HONG KONG ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY. Stock ID: 124349 Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 200pp, paperback, quarto, little extremities wear, corners bumped, still a good copy. Article topics include: site reports, Tang kilns, late 15th to early 16th century blue and white porcelain, research on C-14 dating and C-13/12 ratios of Hong Kong samples, bureaucratic archaeology in Japan. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 124349) ... more |
AU$22.00 |
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| Princes of Jade.
CAPON, EDMUND AND WILLIAM MACQUITTY. Stock ID: 98078 Many colour and black and white illustrations, map, 192pp, bibliography, index, stamp on front free endpaper, dustjacket little chipped and torn but now protected, occasional very light foxing endpapers, good copy. Looks at history and archaeological finds of the Han Dynasty. Published to commemorate the Exhibition of Chinese Antiquities at the Royal Academy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 98078) ... more |
AU$30.00 |
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| Journal of the Hong Kong Archaelogical Society. XIV 1993 - 1997.
HONG KONG ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY Stock ID: 124348 Black and white photographic and line illustrations, 173pp, paper wrappers, quarto, corners little bumped, 'complimentary copy' stamp title page, still very good. In Chinese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 124348) ... more |
AU$22.00 |
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| Historical Relics Unearthed in New Earth.
[ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTEFACTS]. Stock ID: 126907 Black and white and colour photographic plates, 217pp, quarto, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper. Good copy in trifle chipped and worn dustjacket. Text in Chinese, Vietnamese, English, German, Spanish and French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 126907) ... more |
AU$40.00 |
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The Art of the Yellow Springs. Understanding Chinese Tombs.
HUNG, WU. Stock ID: 132795 Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, black and white line drawings and diagrams, 272 pages, index, works cited, references, dustjacket. No other civilization in the premodern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images. In art history these ancient sites have mainly been appreciated as "treasure troves" of exciting and often previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: Now an entire memorial site--rather than its individual components--has become the focus of both observation and interpretation. The Art of Yellow Springs expands on this scholarship by making interpretive methods the direct subject of consideration. It argues that to achieve a genuine understanding of Chinese tombs we need to reconsider a host of art-historical concepts, including visuality, viewership, space, formal analysis, function, and context. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 132795) ... more |
AU$59.95 |