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Map: China | |
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Introducting Chinese Art and Culture | |
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Map: Macroregions of China | |
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Time Chart | |
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Prehistoric Roots: Late Neolithic Cultures | |
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Village Societies | |
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Village Life | |
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Death and Burial | |
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Material Culture: Making Things | |
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Hardstones of the Hongshan and Liangzhu Cultures | |
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Pottery | |
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Yangshao Cultures | |
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East Coast Cultures | |
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The Shandong Longshan Culture | |
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Mind in Matter | |
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Images of Animals and Humans | |
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Boxes | |
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Working Hardstones and Jade | |
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Working with Clay | |
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Precursors to Writing? | |
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The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou | |
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The Early State and Society | |
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Settlements | |
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The Shang Royal Cult | |
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The King and the Political Order | |
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Warfare | |
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Craft Production for the Elite | |
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Bronze Ritual Vessels | |
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Terms of Analysis | |
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Function | |
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Typology and Decoration | |
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Motifs and Meanings | |
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Beyond Shang and Zhou | |
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Boxes | |
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Building with Pounded Earth | |
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Divination: Communicating with the Ancestors | |
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Piece-mold Bronze Casting | |
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Map: Shang and Zhou Sites in Henan and Shaanxi | |
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The Late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou | |
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State and Society | |
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Zhou Urbanism | |
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Warfare: "The Great Affair of State" | |
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Craft Production for the Elite | |
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Luxury Life-styles | |
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Personal Attire | |
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Lacquer | |
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Jades | |
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The Bronze Industry | |
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The Spring and Autumn Period | |
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The Warring States Period | |
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Ritual and Representation | |
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Funerary Ritual | |
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Representational Art | |
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A Wider View: Peoples of the North and Southwest | |
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Boxes | |
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Writing Tools and Scripts | |
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The "Royal City" Plan | |
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Making Lacquer Wares | |
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Map: States of the Warring States Period | |
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The First Empires: Qin and Han | |
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The Imperial State and Society | |
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Qin Unification | |
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Structure of the Han Realm | |
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The Qin and Han Capitals | |
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Han Society | |
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Picturing Elite Life | |
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Court Patronage and Luxury Arts | |
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Lacquer Wares, Metalwork, and Jade | |
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Imperial Ideology and World View | |
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The Emperor | |
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The Tomb of the First Emperor | |
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Han Imperial Tombs | |
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Myths and Portraits | |
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The Souls and the After-life | |
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Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Peoples of the Frontiers | |
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Boxes | |
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The Myth of the Great Wall | |
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The Land of Silk | |
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Map: Xi'an Region | |
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Age of the Dharma: The Period of Division | |
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State and Society | |
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Imperial Capitals: The North | |
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Imperial Tombs: The South | |
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Elite Tombs: The North | |
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The Dharma Comes to the Middle Kingdom | |
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Central Asian and Liang Buddhism | |
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Northern Wei Patrons | |
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Court Patronage at Luoyang | |
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Dunhuang: Early Narratives | |
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Northern Qi Patrons | |
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Luxury and Elite Arts | |
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Stonewares and Glazes | |
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Calligraphy | |
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Secular Painting | |
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Beyond the Middle Kingdom | |
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Boxes | |
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Script Types | |
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"The Six Laws of Xie He" | |
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A New Imperial State: Sui and Tang | |
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State and Society | |
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A New Capital: Daxing cheng and Chang'an | |
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The Imperial Tombs | |
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Scenes from Court Life | |
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State Patronage of the Dharma | |
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Temples and Pagodas | |
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The "Great Image Niche" at Longmen | |
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Tang Chapels at Dunhuang | |
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Buddhist Themes at Dunhuang | |
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The "Sutra Cave" | |
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Elite Life and Elite Arts | |
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Cosmopolitan Life | |
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Calligraphy | |
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Secular Themes in Painting | |
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Beyond the Middle Kingdom | |
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Boxes | |
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The Timber-frame System | |
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Precious Metals | |
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Technologies and Cultures of the Song | |
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Measuring Everyday Life | |
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Art Technologies and Economies | |
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Song Architecture and Urbanism | |
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Ceramic Production | |
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Social Coordinates of Style and Taste | |
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Constructing Landscapes | |
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Cultures of Art | |
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Court Cultures | |
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Women's Culture | |
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Literary Culture and the Arts | |
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Art Literature and Discourses | |
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Varieties of Poetic Painting | |
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Buddhist Artistic Culture | |
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Architecture | |
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Sculpture | |
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Song Buddhist Iconographies | |
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Chan Art | |
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Boxes | |
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Urban Life and Culture in Hangzhou | |
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A Song Court Painter at Work | |
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Painting Formats and Materials | |
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Training and Examination of Court Artists | |
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Maps: Northern Song and Liao Empires | |
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Southern Song and Jin Empires | |
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Official, Personal, and Urban Arts of the Yuan to Middle Ming | |
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Art and Official Ideology | |
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Official Patronage of Religious Art and Architecture | |
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The Porcelain Industry at Jingdezhen | |
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Personal Arts of the Educated Elite | |
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Urban Arts | |
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Boxes | |
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The Establishment of the Yuan Capital City of Dadu at Beijing | |
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Ceramics from a Yuan-dynasty Shipwreck | |
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Art Systems and Circulations: Late Ming to Middle Qing | |
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Woodblock Illustration | |
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Literati Painting and Calligraphy | |
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Orthodoxy and the Fate of Literati Painting | |
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Arts of Desire and Memory | |
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Loyalist Arts of Memory | |
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Commercial and Domestic Arts | |
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Residential Architecture | |
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Hardwood Furniture | |
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Craft Objects from the Suzhou Region | |
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Ceramics for Domestic Markets | |
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Urban Professional Painters | |
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Court Arts | |
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Palace Architecture | |
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Buddhist Arts at Court | |
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Court-sponsored Crafts | |
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International Arts | |
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Export Ceramics | |
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Other Export Crafts | |
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European Arts and Artists at the Qing Court | |
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European Images of China | |
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Box: The Arts of Living: Leisure, Pleasure, and Material Culture | |
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Map: Southeast China | |
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Identity and Community in 19th- and 20th-Century Chinese Art | |
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Images of the Self | |
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Sites of Community and Public Spaces | |
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Post-literati Arts and National-style Painting (Guohua) | |
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Functional Arts | |
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Illustrational and Design Arts | |
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Popular Arts | |
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Political Arts | |
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Images of War, Resistance, and Propaganda | |
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Political Spaces and Art Institutions | |
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Satire and Protest | |
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Transnational Arts and Avant-garde Movements | |
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The Arts of History | |
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Box: Ideological Control of the Arts | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Picture Credits | |
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Index | |