The golden age of Chinese archaeology
By: edited by Xiaoneng Yang.
Contributors: Yang, Xiaoneng.; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- China -- Exhibitions; Prehistoric peoples -- China -- Exhibitions; China -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions; China -- Civilization -- Exhibitions
Description: "In the last fifty years, archaeological discoveries have altered traditional beliefs on the formation and development of the civilization of ancient China. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies cover the period from 5000 BCE to the 10th-century C.E. presenting more than 170 masterpieces in jade, stone, ivory bone, pottery, bronze, lacquer, bamboo, gold, and silver.

Together these astonishing objects demonstrate that highly advanced artistic cultures originated in and flowered throughout a vast area. Earlier generations of scholars believed that a much smaller area, the Yellow River Valley, was the principal source and locus of Chinese civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19          September 1999-2 January 2000 ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 February-7 May 2000 ; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 17 June-11 September 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 564-569) and index.

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