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Ancient
Sichuan : Treasures from a Lost Civilization
by Robert Bagley (Editor)
Ancient Sichuan is the catalog of a spectacular exhibition organized
by the Seattle Art Museum. Recent discoveries from Sichuan Province are
revolutionizing the history of ancient China, showing that the traditional
cradle of Chinese culture, along the Yellow River, had sophisticated competition
from distant regions 3,000 years ago. Stately bronze trees and huge bronze
heads--some with gold-foil masks, some with strange alien eyes on foot-long
stalks--are the centerpieces of the show. Dating from the 12th century
B.C., these exotic objects, found with elephant tusks and ritual jade weapons
in two vast sacrificial pits, are artifacts of a previously unknown culture
whose existence took archaeologists by surprise. These pieces alone would
be sufficient for a groundbreaking exhibition, but the show and this beautifully
designed catalog take the distinctive nature of local Sichuan culture into
Han times, 1,000 years later. Lively ceramic sculptures of entertainers
and erotic scenes on wall tiles demonstrate the creativity and exuberance
of ancient Sichuan society. Essays by leading scholars in the field compellingly
describe the context and significance of the often breathtaking objects.
A wealth of comparative material, photographs, and drawings explains how
original and different Sichuan culture was from what has long been considered
the Yellow River Bronze Age mainstream. With the finds illustrated in Ancient
Sichuan, the cradle of Chinese civilization begins to look like a large
double bed. --John Stevenson - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 360 pages
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691088519; (May 1, 2001)
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the Han and Sui dynasties. Accompanying a traveling exhibition organized
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in clay, metal, and glass from the fourth through seventh centuries. They
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Hardcover: 352 pages
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