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Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture [Hardcover]

Wu Hung (Author), Wu (Author)

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Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press (April 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804724288
ISBN-13: 978-0804724289
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.8 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,846,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
THESE LINES OPEN a famous Zhou dynasty ode in the Book of Songs. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancestral dedication, retired worthies, mausoleum district, zun vessel, nine tripods, ling mausoleum, filial practices, shijue jianbao, mausoleum town, pictorial carvings, memorial stela, funerary park, pan inscription, fajue jianbao, ling town, omen images, monthly observances, renmin meishu chubanshe, ding tripod, ritual jades, satellite tombs, ritual canons, earthen core, ritual bronzes, stela inscriptions

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eastern Han, Bright Hall, Western Zhou, Emperor Wu, Eastern Zhou, Western Han, Wang Mang, Ban Gu, Emperor Hui, King Wu, Voices of Funerary Monuments, Duke of Zhou, First Emperor, Three Dynasties, Shanglin Park, Weiyang Palace, Wei River, Son of Heaven, Bronze Age, Sima Qian, Records of the Historian, Tan Fu, King Wen, Zhang Heng, Han Shao

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This book cites 62 books:

The Bronze Age (Irvington Reprint Series in Anthropology) by V. Gordon Childe on page 64, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Art and Political Expression in Early China by Mr. Martin J. Powers on page 190, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Han Civilization (Early Chinese Civilization Series) by Wang Zhongshu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Book of Rites (Selections) by Confucius on page 111, and page 112
The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry by Arthur Waley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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24 books cite this book:

The Construction Of Space In Early China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Mark Edward Lewis on 4 pages
China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization (Encounters with Asia) by Robert L. Thorp in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization by David Clarke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-twentieth-century China, Association of Asian Studies) by Pamela Kyle Crossley on page 263, and Back Matter
The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting by Wu Hung in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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