China's terracotta warriors
Subtitle: the first emperor's legacy
By: Liu Yang ; with contributions by Edmund Capon ... [et al.].
Contributors: Capon, Edmund; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Distributed by the University of Washington Press; University of Washington Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn; Seattle, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780980048490
Subjects: Tomb; Excavations (Archaeology); Exhibitions; Terra-cotta sculpture, Chinese; Antiquities
Other titles: First emperor's legacy
Notes: Catalog for the exhibition held at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Oct. 28, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013, and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Feb. 22-May 27, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Zhao Rong; title: Director's foreword  -- Kaywin Feldman; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Map and chronology --; title: Five decisive events in the rise of the State of Qin  -- Jeffrey Riegel; title: From the "barbarian" land: recent discoveries in the archaeology of the Qin in Gansu  -- Liu Yang; title: City, palace, and burial: an archaeological perspective on Qin culture in Shaanxi  -- Liu Yang; title: Objects from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods  -- Liu Yang; title: The first emperor: his life, achievements, and vision  -- Liu Yang; title: The Qin Army and its antecedents  -- Albert E. Dien; title: Inheritance and innovation: Qin bronze, gold, and jade  -- Liu Yang; title: The discovery and excavation of the Terracotta Army  -- Yuan Zhongyi; title: The first emperor's tomb complex  -- Liu Yang; title: The making of the Terracotta Army  -- Liu Yang; title: The first emperor's army: realism, naturalism, symbolism  -- Edmund Capon; title: What happened to the first emperor's afterlife spirit?  -- Eugene Wang; title: Objects from the Qin Dynasty  -- Liu Yang; title: Glossary of Chinese characters --; title: Further reading --; title: Image credits --; title: Index.