Map: China -- Introducting Chinese Art and Culture -- Map: Macroregions of China -- Time Chart -- 1. Prehistoric Roots: Late Neolithic Cultures -- Village Societies -- Village Life -- Death and Burial -- Material Culture: Making Things -- Hardstones of the Hongshan and Liangzhu Cultures -- Pottery -- Yangshao Cultures -- East Coast Cultures -- The Shandong Longshan Culture -- Mind in Matter -- Images of Animals and Humans -- Boxes -- Working Hardstones and Jade -- Working with Clay -- Precursors to Writing? -- 2. The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou -- The Early State and Society -- Settlements -- The Shang Royal Cult -- The King and the Political Order -- Warfare -- Craft Production for the Elite -- Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Terms of Analysis -- Function -- Typology and Decoration -- Motifs and Meanings -- Beyond Shang and Zhou -- Boxes -- Building with Pounded Earth -- Divination: Communicating with the Ancestors -- Piece-mold Bronze Casting -- Map: Shang and Zhou Sites in Henan and Shaanxi -- 3. The Late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou -- State and Society -- Zhou Urbanism -- Warfare: "The Great Affair of State" -- Craft Production for the Elite -- Luxury Life-styles -- Personal Attire -- Lacquer -- Jades -- The Bronze Industry -- The Spring and Autumn Period -- The Warring States Period -- Ritual and Representation -- Funerary Ritual -- Representational Art -- A Wider View: Peoples of the North and Southwest -- Boxes -- Writing Tools and Scripts -- The "Royal City" Plan -- Making Lacquer Wares -- Map: States of the Warring States Period -- 4. The First Empires: Qin and Han -- The Imperial State and Society -- Qin Unification -- Structure of the Han Realm -- The Qin and Han Capitals -- Han Society -- Picturing Elite Life -- Court Patronage and Luxury Arts -- Lacquer Wares, Metalwork, and Jade -- Imperial Ideology and World View -- The Emperor -- The Tomb of the First Emperor -- Han Imperial Tombs -- Myths and Portraits -- The Souls and the After-life -- Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Peoples of the Frontiers -- Boxes -- The Myth of the Great Wall -- The Land of Silk -- Map: Xi'an Region -- 5. Age of the Dharma: The Period of Division -- State and Society -- Imperial Capitals: The North -- Imperial Tombs: The South -- Elite Tombs: The North -- The Dharma Comes to the Middle Kingdom -- Central Asian and Liang Buddhism -- Northern Wei Patrons -- Court Patronage at Luoyang -- Dunhuang: Early Narratives -- Northern Qi Patrons -- Luxury and Elite Arts -- Stonewares and Glazes -- Calligraphy -- Secular Painting -- Beyond the Middle Kingdom -- Boxes -- Script Types -- "The Six Laws of Xie He" -- 6. A New Imperial State: Sui and Tang -- State and Society -- A New Capital: Daxing cheng and Chang'an -- The Imperial Tombs -- Scenes from Court Life -- State Patronage of the Dharma -- Temples and Pagodas -- The "Great Image Niche" at Longmen -- Tang Chapels at Dunhuang -- Buddhist Themes at Dunhuang -- The "Sutra Cave" -- Elite Life and Elite Arts -- Cosmopolitan Life -- Calligraphy -- Secular Themes in Painting -- Beyond the Middle Kingdom -- Boxes -- The Timber-frame System -- Precious Metals -- 7. Technologies and Cultures of the Song -- Measuring Everyday Life -- Art Technologies and Economies -- Song Architecture and Urbanism -- Ceramic Production -- Social Coordinates of Style and Taste -- Constructing Landscapes -- Cultures of Art -- Court Cultures -- Women's Culture -- Literary Culture and the Arts -- Art Literature and Discourses -- Varieties of Poetic Painting -- Buddhist Artistic Culture -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Song Buddhist Iconographies -- Chan Art -- Boxes -- Urban Life and Culture in Hangzhou -- A Song Court Painter at Work -- Painting Formats and Materials -- Training and Examination of Court Artists -- Maps: Northern Song and Liao Empires -- Southern Song and Jin Empires -- 8. Official, Personal, and Urban Arts of the Yuan to Middle Ming -- Art and Official Ideology -- Official Patronage of Religious Art and Architecture -- The Porcelain Industry at Jingdezhen -- Personal Arts of the Educated Elite -- Urban Arts -- Boxes -- The Establishment of the Yuan Capital City of Dadu at Beijing -- Ceramics from a Yuan-dynasty Shipwreck -- 9. Art Systems and Circulations: Late Ming to Middle Qing -- Woodblock Illustration -- Literati Painting and Calligraphy -- Orthodoxy and the Fate of Literati Painting -- Arts of Desire and Memory -- Loyalist Arts of Memory -- Commercial and Domestic Arts -- Residential Architecture -- Hardwood Furniture -- Craft Objects from the Suzhou Region -- Ceramics for Domestic Markets -- Urban Professional Painters -- Court Arts -- Palace Architecture -- Buddhist Arts at Court -- Court-sponsored Crafts -- International Arts -- Export Ceramics -- Other Export Crafts -- European Arts and Artists at the Qing Court -- European Images of China -- Box: The Arts of Living: Leisure, Pleasure, and Material Culture -- Map: Southeast China -- 10. Identity and Community in 19th- and 20th-Century Chinese Art -- Images of the Self -- Sites of Community and Public Spaces -- Post-literati Arts and National-style Painting (Guohua) -- Functional Arts -- Illustrational and Design Arts -- Popular Arts -- Political Arts -- Images of War, Resistance, and Propaganda -- Political Spaces and Art Institutions -- Satire and Protest -- Transnational Arts and Avant-garde Movements -- The Arts of History -- Box: Ideological Control of the Arts
Biography or History
Robert L. Thorp, is professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis
Richard Ellis Vinograd, chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University since 1995
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [420]-429) and index