Han Tombs of Xuzhou PDF Download

Author: Yong Laing
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ISBN: 9781784591403
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Xuan Chen
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784912174
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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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).

Author: Chen Li
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789690781
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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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.

Author: Richard C. Rudolph
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author: Zhaoming Xiong
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811946604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This is the first book to systematically study the Hepu Han Tombs. Covering an area of about 68 square kilometers, the Hepu Han Tombs is one of the largest-scale and best-preserved ancient tombs in China. In 2001, the remains of 1,056 grave mounds could be seen on the earth surface and it was estimated that almost 10,000 tombs still survived underground. In the last 60 years, over 1,200 tombs have been excavated at Hepu, with approximately 20,000 artefacts unearthed which include pottery, bronze, iron, gold and silver ware, jade, lacquer, glass and bead ornaments. Especially to deserve to be mentioned, a large amount of artefacts can be related to the Maritime Silk Road. From the 2nd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D., the Hepu Port served as the eastern starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, opening up trade and cultural exchange with countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, and the Mediterranean world, which resulted in a vast maritime trade network between China and the West. And these artefacts provide important evidence about this route, which also confirm the records of Chinese official history books. Therefore, the Hepu Han Tombs is of great significance to the study of ancient Chinese history and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

Author: James C. S. Lin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300184341
Category : Archaeology and history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. From family values to the structure of the civil service, Han thinking and philosophy continue to pervade Chinese society up to the present day - indeed, the majority of Chinese people consider themselves 'Han Chinese'. In the search for immortality, the Han imperial family left an artistic legacy of spectacular beauty and power. The finest of these treasures to have survived - including exquisite jades, silver and goldwork, bronzes and ceramics - have been found in the tombs of the Han imperial family and of a revival 'emperor' of Nanyue.

Author: Seung Kew Choi
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Jie Shi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231549202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent by his father, Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), to rule the Zhongshan kingdom near the northern frontier of the Western Han Empire, neighboring the nomadic Xiongnu confederation. Modeling Peace interprets Western Han royal burial as a political ideology by closely reading the architecture and funerary content of this site and situating it in the historical context of imperialization in Western Han China. Through a study of both the archaeological materials and related received and excavated texts, Jie Shi demonstrates that the Mancheng site was planned and designed as a unity of religious, gender, and intercultural concerns. The site was built under the supervision of the future occupants of the royal tomb, who used these burials to assert their political ideology based on Huang-Lao and Confucian thought: a good ruler is one who pacifies himself, his family, and his country. This book is the first scholarly monograph on an undisturbed and fully excavated early Chinese royal burial site.

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Publisher: Asian Art Museum  
ISBN: 9780939117789
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This stunning Chinese art book presents almost a hundred recently unearthed objects that offer a glimpse into the extraordinary wealth and artistic accomplishments of elite society during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE). These exquisite treasures are from newly discovered sites in the Jiangsu region of China and are made of gold, silver, jade, bronze, pottery, lacquer, and other refined materials. Masterworks include a full-length jade suit sewn with gold threads, an oversized coffin shrouded in jade, and a complete set of functional bronze bells. The book's texts explore a number of ideas about the lives and deaths of Western Han royalty.

Author: Yaling Zhang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
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"The study of history is one way of preserving human culture. In China, a country with thousands of years long history, a vast number of historical events have been recorded in different literary works, including history books, fictions, biographies, and so on. However, we still need evidence to support or verify those literatures. One physical evidence are antiques excavated from tombs of different dynasties. The ancient tomb mirrors a micro society of a certain dynasty. This project presented in this study is a 3D environmental design, comprised of four 3D scenes in high quality rendering to show the architecture and interior environment of an ancient tomb. Due to the long history of China (more than 3000 years), it is impossible to cover all dynasties here. Hence in this study, the author focuses on the Western Han dynasty (206BC - 9AD) because it was one of the peaks of the development of Chinese culture, and the royal mausoleums from Han spread all over the city of Taiyuan where rich cultural relics were perfectly excavated. This 3D design reproduced the ancient tomb's architecture using softwares such as, Maya, Zbrush and Substance Painter. The author created 3 important rooms including the chariot room, the front room and the main room. In each room, specific lighting, different decoration and beautiful burial objects were created and carefully added to restore an incredibly lifelike 3D ancient tomb. This 3D design can easily attract people's attention and help audience understand this ancient cultural relics that were extensively destroyed by now."--Abstract.