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[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300237023/early-chinese-jades-in-the-harvard-art-museums/ by Jenny F. So Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS] | [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300237023/early-chinese-jades-in-the-harvard-art-museums/ by Jenny F. So Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS] | ||
From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed Grenville L. Winthrop Collection at the Harvard Art Museums—which includes some of the finest examples of ancient and archaizing jades outside China—this volume explains how and why jade developed its special significance. | From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed Grenville L. Winthrop Collection at the Harvard Art Museums—which includes some of the finest examples of ancient and archaizing jades outside China—this volume explains how and why jade developed its special significance. | ||
=====Time in Early Chinese Art===== | |||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118885215.ch10 by Eugene Y. Wang 9/10/15 WILEY.OnlineLibrary] | |||
The Chinese notion of time has mostly been treated as an abstraction extrapolated from various early texts, leading some scholars to make some assertions about the kind of time concept that dominates Chinese thinking. In an illustrated silk manuscript uncovered from a basket case from a tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, ca. 300 BCE, the design is essentially a calendric chronograph. Manipulation of time remains a key function of early Chinese art. | |||
