Chinese Silk: A Cultural History
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An illustrated survey of the production and significance of silk in China from prehistory to the present day.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0714114790
ISBN13:9780714114798
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:British Museum Press
Length:224 Pages
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An impressive and seminal work of outstanding scholarship
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Chinese Silk: A Cultural History by Shelagh Vainker (Assistant Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England) is a detailed history of silk in China ranging from its Neolithic origins down to the twentieth century. Relating the use of Chinese silk to other decorative arts, and drawing extensively from archaeology, paintings, poems, and other texts, Vainker traces the role of silk in Chinese history, trade, religion, and literature. Chinese Silk is an impressive and seminal work of outstanding scholarship, would make a superb choice as a community library Memorial Fund acquisition, as well as an essential, core addition to academic library Cultural History collections.
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