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Author(s):	Jessica Rawson

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	029575236X
Pages:	560	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment  formidable infrastructure  a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family  a shared written script of characters  a cuisine founded on rice and millet  a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade  and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements and their diverse expressions often lie not in written history but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs and the treasures within them are almost the only artifacts to survive from Ancient China  their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.

Jessica Rawson, one of the most eminent Western scholars of China, explores twelve grand tombseach from a specific historical moment and placeshowing how they reveal wider political, dynastic, and cultural developments, culminating in the lavish ambition of the First Emperor's monument, guarded by his army of terracotta warriors. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries,
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