A General History of Chinese Art

This volume studies the evolution of

Chinese art during the Qin and Han Dynasties, The Three Kingdoms,

Eastern and Western Jin, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It

traces the initial artistic vocabularies of Chinese calligraphy as well

as the rapid development of the performing and the decorative arts. A

General History of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of

nine parts spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3 rd

year of Xuantong during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a

comprehensive compilation of in-depth studies of the development of art

throughout the subsequent reign of Chinese dynasties and explores the

emergence of a wide range of artistic categories such as but not limited

to music, dance, acrobatics, singing, story telling, painting,

calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and crafts. Unlike previous

reference books, A General History of Chinese Art offers a

broader overview of the notion of Chinese art by asserting a more

diverse and less material understanding of arts, as has often been the

case in Western scholarship.

Broad overall view, translated from Chinese