China Archaeology

Atherton: Hong Kong Rocks. Paperback

Hong Kong Rocks. Paperback
by M.J. Atherton and A.D. Burnett
146 pages, with ca. 100 colour illustrations, glossary, index, maps, bibliography. 1986

30326UC

Barber: The Mummies of Ürümchi: Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,4000 Years Ago? Paperback

Mummies of Urumchi: Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,4000 Years Ago? Paperback
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
240 pages with text, maps and other text illustrations, 16 pages with colour illustrations, bibliography and index. 2000. A look at the incredibly well-preserved ancient mummies found in Western China describes their clothing and appearance, attempts to reconstruct their culture, and speculates about how Caucasians could have found their way to the feet of the Himalayan mountains.

9780393320190

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Coutin: Der verborgene Buddha. Höhlenmalereien in Turkestan. Gebunden

Verborgene Buddha. Höhlenmalereien in Turkestan. 25,5 cm. Gebunden
Mit Texten von Andre Coutin, Laure Feugere und anderen
167 Seiten mit zahlreiche Farbabbildungen. 2003. Buddhistische Mönche schmückten zwischen dem 3. und dem 8. Jahrhundert n. Chr. entlang der Seidenstraße verborgene Höhlen mit Wandmalereien, die heute noch kaum bekannt sind. Sie stellen die Lebensphasen Buddhas in einem einzigartigen Mischstil aus iranischen, afghanische, türkischen und indischen Einflüssen dar. Die geheimnisvolle Bilderwelt und ihre Ikonographie werden hier erstmals erläutert

3896601474

Esherick: Remaking the Chinese City. Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. Cloth

Remaking the Chinese City. Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. Cloth
Joseph W. Esherick, editor
x, 278 pages, with 22 maps, 22 illustrations, glossary, index, bibliography. 1999. Historians working in US universities examine the modernist transformation of ten Chinese cities in the first half of the 20th century as government elites sought to make their cities both modern and distinctly Chinese. Rather than the failure and decay most previous scholars have found in the period, they describe an exciting urban world in constant and fundamental change.

9780824821487, 0824821483-41a65

Fraser: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover
Sarah E. Fraser
xvi, 342 pages, with numerous illustrations. 2003

0804745331

Golany: Chinese Earth-Sheltered Dwellings. Indigenous Lessons for Modern Urban Design. Hardcover

Chinese Earth-Sheltered Dwellings. Indigenous Lessons for Modern Urban Design. Hardcover. ca. 22x29 cm
by Gideon S. Golany
xix, 178 pages, with 124 figures, 7 tables, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. 1992

0824813693

Gridley: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture under the Liao. Free Standing Works in Situ and Selected Examples from Public Collections. Hardcover

Chinese Buddhist Sculpture under the Liao. Free Standing Works in Situ and Selected Examples from Public Collections. Hardcover. Ca. 22x28.5 cm
by Marilyn Leidig Gridley
204 pages with text, bibliography, chronology, index, 132 (some fold-outs) plates, 3 maps
1. Introduction. 2. Historical background. 3. Shansi monuments. 4. Tu-lo-ssu. 5. The I-chou Lohans. 6. Feng-kuo-ssu and Shang-ching. 7. Sculptures from Public Collections

81 Leidig Gridley

Howard: Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Sculpture of Dazu, China. Hardcover

Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Sculpture of Dazu, China. Hardcover
by Angela Falco Howard
xiv, 206 pages, 181 blackwhite and colour illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 2001
The Song dynasty Buddhist sculptures found in the cave complexes of the Baodingshan site at Dazu in the Sichuan province of China are discussed in a rich contextual study that seeks to present them as a unified iconographic whole. Howard (art history, Rutgers U.) lays out her theory that the whole complex can be read as a three-dimensional mandala then turns to the social function of the site as she describes the site's patron and its use in pilgrimage. The development of the Sichuan artistic style is also considered.

0834804271

Li Xiating: Art of the Houma Foundry: An illustrated repertory of archaeological finds made at the site of a 6th-to-5th C. B.C. bronze foundry. Cloth

Art of the Houma Foundry: An illustrated repertory of archaeological finds made at the site (Houma: Shanxi Province) of a 6th-to-5th C. B.C. bronze foundry. Cloth
By Xu, Jay / Bagley, Robert (Edt) / Liang, Ziming / Li, Xiating, principal author
viii, 523 pages. The book contains 1,200 of the most notable pieces of decorated foundry debris in photos and drawings. In colour and black-white

0691011370

Nickel: Die Rückkehr des Buddha: Chinesische Skulpturen des 6. Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qing Zhou. Gebunden

Rückkehr des Buddha: Chinesische Skulpturen des 6. Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qing Zhou. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2001, im Museum Rietberg, und in der Royal Academy of Arts. 30,5 cm. Gebunden
Herausgegeben von Lukas Nickel
236 Seiten mit zahlreiche, meist farbigen, Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln. 2001

3907077016

Sarma: Buddhist Monuments of China and South-East India. Cloth

Buddhist Monuments of China and South-East India: South Indian influences in Chinese Architecture. Cloth. 23x28 cm
by I. K. Sarma
115 pages with text, 47 plates, 8 maps. 1985 (published in India, poor quality of the photographs)

81 Sarma

Wang Chaowen: The First Emperor's Terracotta Legion. Hardcover

First Emperor's Terracotta Legion. Hardcover. 26x36 cm
preface by Wang Chaowen
206 pages, with full-colour photographs, many times full-size. With 'The Pottery Soldiers and Horses at Qin Shi Huang's Tomb', 'An Archaeological Site at Lishan Mountain', 'The Qin Tomb Figures in Military Formation' and so on. 1988

7503200766

Wang Tianyi: Underground Art Gallery. China's Brick Paintings 1,700 Years Old. Cloth

Underground Art Gallery: China's Brick Paintings 1,700 Years Old. Cloth, ca. 23x26 cm
Paintings reproduced by Wang Tianyi
131 pages with text, 70 colour plates, many other illustrations. 1989. It was only a dozen or so years ago that a number of brick paintings in attractive colors were discovered in the ancient tombs at jiayuguan in Gansu Province of China. These paintings are around four hundred years older than the paintings discovered before 1949 by archaeologists in the famous Dunhuang grottoes, also in Gansu Province, and date back to the late Han or Wei and Jin dynasties seventeen hundred years ago

7800050165

Zhang Zhongpei, Xu Hong, Wang Renxiang, Sarah Allan: The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. Hardcover

Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. Hardcover
by Zhang Zhongpei, Xu Hong, Wang Renxiang, Sarah Allan
2005. Paleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties—all these are part of the archaeological riches of China. This magnificent book surveys China’s archaeological remains and in the process rewrites the early history of the world’s most enduring civilization.

9780300093827, 0300093829 40165