Chinese Silks Hardback
by Feng Zhao, Wengying Li, Juanjuan Chen, Nengfu Huang, Hao Peng
Edited by James C. Y. Watt, Dieter Kuhn
Part of the The Culture & Civilization of China series
Hardback
Description
The first comprehensive history of China's most luxurious textile and its enduring influence on Chinese civilization and art Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years.
In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Western and Chinese scholars draw upon these spectacular discoveries to provide the most thorough account of the history of silk ever written. Encyclopedic in breadth, the volume presents a chronological history of silk from a variety of perspectives, including archaeological, technological, art historical, and aesthetic.
The contributors explore the range of uses for silk, from the everyday to the sublime.
By directly connecting recently found textile artifacts to specific references in China's vast historical literature, they illuminate the evolution of silk making and the driving social forces that have inspired the creation of innovative textiles through the millennia.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:624 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2012
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- ISBN:9780300111033
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:624 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2012
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- ISBN:9780300111033
