China at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907) - Hardcover

Sabrina Rastelli

 
9788861306813: China at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8861306810 ISBN 13: 9788861306813
Publisher: Skira Editore, 2009

Synopsis

200 artistic masterpieces of Chinas golden age, many published here for the first time. China at the Court of the Emperors presents almost 200 masterpieces coming from 32 museums and institutes in Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, and Jiangsu provinces, many of them never seen in the West before, and examines the vast period from the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) through the Tang (618-907), during which Chinese civilisation underwent radical transformation. The interval of time between the fall of the Eastern Han and Chinas reunification under the Sui dynasty (581-618) is traditionally considered as a dark period of unrest in which the country was politically and culturally divided between north and south, east and west. Nevertheless, recent archaeological excavations and new studies are demonstrating that in reality this period of Chinese history was far from being a cultural desert and rather represented a moment of regeneration and flowering of the arts, culminating in the Tang civilisation, traditionally defined as Chinas Golden Age.

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About the Author

Sabrina Rastelli is professor at Universita Ca’ Foscari in Venice. She is the author of Ceramica Cinese: Evoluzione tecnologica dal Neolitico alle Cinque Dinastie, published by Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, in 2004.

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Publisher
Skira Editore
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8861306810
ISBN 13 
9788861306813
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320