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Title: Chinese Jade
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China
ISBN-10: 1602201293
EAN: 9781602201293
ISBN: 9781602201293
Publisher: Shanghai Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 20/09/2012
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 260mm
Item Length: 184mm
Item Weight: 765g
Author: Li Hongjuan
Translator: Tony Blishen
Contributor: Gu Fang (Compiled by), Li Hongjuan (Compiled by), Tony Blishen (Translated by), Tony Blishen (Foreword by)
Genre: Arts & Photography
Description: This beautifully photographed Chinese art book is a comprehensive exploration of jade and its history in China from the Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty.

To the Chinese people, jade is a precious stone endowed with magical properties which encapsulated all that mankind aspires to in terms of character, elegance, tranquility, purity and virtue. The Chinese love jade not merely because of its rarity or its luster but because of a deeper aesthetic value.

Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China presents a comprehensive view of jade and its history in China from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty. It illustrates pieces of jade that are on display not only in the Palace Museum in Beijing but in the many provincial and other museums across China. It will help the reader to understand what jade means to the Chinese in China; how it is classified and described and where it is found and worked and displayed. It has a value beyond that of a simple catalog and places jade in its natural, and central, cultural context.
Release Year: 2012

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