Author: Susan N. EricksonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Eastern Han dynasty cliff tombs of Santai Xian, Sichuan province
Author: Susan N. EricksonEastern Han (AD 25-220) Tombs in Sichuan
Author: Xuan ChenPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784912174
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This work explores the many factors underlying the extended popularity of the cliff tomb, a local burial form in the Sichuan Basin in China during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220).
China's Early Empires
Author: Michael NylanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521852978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Shows how recent archaeological discoveries have enriched our perception of the cultural history of China in the Classical era.
Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China
Author: Timothy M. DavisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004306420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.
Journal of East Asian Archaeology
Author: Res
Author: Hung WuPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0873658647
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Res 61/62 includes “Chinese coffins from the first millennium b.c. and early images of the afterworld” by Alain Thote; “Art and personhood” by Björn Ewald; “Western Han sarcophagi and the transformation of Chinese funerary art” by Zheng Yan; “Reading identity on Roman strigillated sarcophagi” by Janet Huskinson; and other papers.
Stories from China's Past
Author: Kenneth J. DeWoskinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780960978434
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Tomb Complexes of Later Han Dynasty in Shandong Province
Author: Seung Kew ChoiPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600
Author: Nancy Shatzman SteinhardtPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082483822X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with more than 475 color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remains—to present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in China’s history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North America’s leading scholar of premodern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty years ago and have never been described in a Western language. The physical remains are a handful of pagodas, dozens of cave-temples, thousands of tombs, small-scale evidence of architecture such as sarcophaguses, and countless representations of buildings in paint and relief sculpture. Together they narrate an expansive architectural history that offers the first in-depth study of the development, century-by-century, of Chinese architecture of third through the sixth centuries, plus a view of important buildings from the two hundred years before the third century and the resolution of architecture of this period in later construction. The subtext of this history is an examination of Chinese architecture that answers fundamental questions such as: What was achieved by a building system of standardized components? Why has this building tradition of perishable materials endured so long in China? Why did it have so much appeal to non-Chinese empire builders? Does contemporary architecture of Korea and Japan enhance our understanding of Chinese construction? How much of a role did Buddhism play in construction during the period under study? In answering these questions, the book focuses on the relation between cities and monuments and their heroic or powerful patrons, among them Cao Cao, Shi Hu, Empress Dowager Hu, Gao Huan, and lesser-known individuals. Specific and uniquely Chinese aspects of architecture are explained. The relevance of sweeping—and sometimes uncomfortable—concepts relevant to the Chinese architectural tradition such as colonialism, diffusionism, and the role of historical memory also resonate though the book.
Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) Stone Carved Tombs in Central and Eastern China
Author: Chen LiPublisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN: 9781789690774
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) stone carved tombs were constructed from carved stone slabs or a combination of moulded bricks and carved stones, and were distributed in Central and Eastern China. In this book, the origins, meanings and influences of these tombs are presented as a part of the history of interactions between different parts of Eurasia.