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CHINA AT THE COURT OF THE EMPERORS: UNKNOWN MASTERPIECES FROM HAN TRADITION TO TANG ELEGANCE (25-907) by RASTELLI, SABRINA (Hardcover - 2009) ISBN: 9788861306813 Subject: CHINA Publisher: SKIRA This collection presents almost 200 masterpieces, coming from thirty-two museums and institutes, many of them never seen in the West before. It examines the vast period from the Eastern Han dynasty (25¡V220) through the Tang (618¡V907), during which Chinese civilization underwent radical transformation. Tang China synthesized foreign and indigenous elements that had been present for centuries, thus creating a distinctive, and extraordinary cosmopolitan civilization, made possible by tolerance - a message as important today as it was 1,500 years ago. |
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