CHINA AT THE COURT OF THE EMPERORS: UNKNOWN MASTERPIECES FROM HAN TRADITION TO TANG ELEGANCE (25-907)
by RASTELLI, SABRINA
List Price: HK$ 495.00
¡@ISBN
9788861306813
¡@Subject
CHINA
¡@Publisher
SKIRA
¡@Publication
2009
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
This collection presents almost 200 masterpieces, coming from
thirty-two museums and institutes, many of them never seen in
the West before. It examines the vast period from the Eastern
Han dynasty (25¡V220) through the Tang (618¡V907), during which
Chinese civilization underwent radical transformation. Tang China
synthesized foreign and indigenous elements that had been
present for centuries, thus creating a distinctive, and extraordinary
cosmopolitan civilization, made possible by tolerance - a message
as important today as it was 1,500 years ago.
