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HIST1405 Assignment 1
Name: Ho Yee Lam Student ID: 17226643
1. Wen Fong, “The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People’s Republic of China”, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
The Bronze age collections provided by the China’s Cultural Relics Bureau are shown in this book. The catalogue not only displays a wide range of tools and objects in that era, many details, drawings, graphs and maps are also included.
2. Ying Wang, “Bronze Age China: Style and Material”, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010
This book studies on different kinds of ‘styles’ in Bronze age China, include the style of living, gender, social structure, division of workers, and craft specialization. Therefore, readers can understand more
about the Bronze age in China though Chinese art and archaeology.
3. 張光直，《中國青銅時代》（北京：生活·讀書·知新三聯書店，2013）
This book describes the productions, usages and diminishment of the bronze utensils during the dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Not only the study of the technology, the politic, economic, sacrificial aspects are also discussed in order to give a whole picture of the Bronze age in those dynasties to the readers.
4. Lothar von Falkenhausen, “Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China”, California, University of California Press, 1994
The author introduces the Chinese traditional instrument, chime-bells’ sound and how they really work. He also discusses on how the music played an important part in ancient China ritually and politically.
5. Roberta Smith, “A New World of Ancient Culture, Recorded in Bronze”, New York Times, retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/arts/art-review-a-new-world-of-ancient-culture-recorded-in-bronze.html?mcubz=3, 2002 March 8.
She reports there was an exhibition displayed the sculptures and objects that discovered from Sichuan since 1950. The reader can get vivid images form the descriptions of the objects inside the article. Moreover, the background information, process and some objects’ meanings of the design are provided.
HIST1405 Assignment 1
Name: Ho Yee Lam Student ID: 17226643
1. Wen Fong, “The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People’s Republic of China”, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
The Bronze age collections provided by the China’s Cultural Relics Bureau are shown in this book. The catalogue not only displays a wide range of tools and objects in that era, many details, drawings, graphs and maps are also included.
2. Ying Wang, “Bronze Age China: Style and Material”, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010
This book studies on different kinds of ‘styles’ in Bronze age China, include the style of living, gender, social structure, division of workers, and craft specialization. Therefore, readers can understand more
about the Bronze age in China though Chinese art and archaeology.
3. 張光直，《中國青銅時代》（北京：生活·讀書·知新三聯書店，2013）
This book describes the productions, usages and diminishment of the bronze utensils during the dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Not only the study of the technology, the politic, economic, sacrificial aspects are also discussed in order to give a whole picture of the Bronze age in those dynasties to the readers.
4. Lothar von Falkenhausen, “Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China”, California, University of California Press, 1994
The author introduces the Chinese traditional instrument, chime-bells’ sound and how they really work. He also discusses on how the music played an important part in ancient China ritually and politically.
5. Roberta Smith, “A New World of Ancient Culture, Recorded in Bronze”, New York Times, retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/arts/art-review-a-new-world-of-ancient-culture-recorded-in-bronze.html?mcubz=3, 2002 March 8.
She reports there was an exhibition displayed the sculptures and objects that discovered from Sichuan since 1950. The reader can get vivid images form the descriptions of the objects inside the article. Moreover, the background information, process and some objects’ meanings of the design are provided.