Author: Xiaoneng Yang.
Title: New perspectives on Chinas past = Chinesische Archäologie im 20. Jahrhundert. 2 Volume-set.
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 1099 pp. With 400 b/w & 750 color illustrations. In orig. slipcase. Heavy item. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This richly illustrated book is the first to introduce and discuss the most important archaeological discoveries in China during the entire twentieth century. The two-volume set draws on Chinese archaeological fieldwork to address cross-disciplinary topics in archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, and religion. Chinese archaeology has provided materials that are prompting scholars to reconstruct or rewrite China s history from the prehistoric period through the Imperial dynasties. New Perspectives on China s Past is a compendium of this breakthrough research and the global scholarship that surrounds it. With some six hundred illustrations, glossary, index, and extensive bibliography, this work will be a standard reference on Chinese archaeology in the twentieth century. ISBN 9780300096347.

Keywords: ART, Chinese art