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The first emperor：China's Terracotta Army

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Portal Jane.; Kinoshita Hiromi.
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: c2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Qin shi huang > (Emperor of China,) > 259-210 B.C.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Chinese > Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
Excavations (Archaeology) > China > Shaanxi Sheng.
Shaanxi Sheng (China) > Antiquities.
Carrier Form: 240 p.: ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
ISBN: 9780674026971 (alk. paper)
0674026977 (alk. paper)
Index Number: K878
CLC: K878.8-64
Call Number: K878.8-64/F527
Contents: Originally published in 2007 by The British Museum Press ... London ...
This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 13 September 2007 to 6 April 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.
Sponsor's foreword -- Director's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction : the First Emperor : the making of China / Jane Portal -- 1. The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states / Robin D.S. Yates -- 2. The First Emperor and the Qin empire / Michael Loewe -- Qin coins / Helen Wang -- Qin palaces and architecture / Hiromi Kinoshita -- Qin gold and jade / Carol Michaelson -- 3. Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions / Martin Kern -- 4. The First Emperor's tomb : the afterlife universe / Jessica Rawson -- 5. A two-thousand-year-old underground empire / Wu Yongqi -- The terracotta army / Lukas Nickel -- Armour for the afterlife / James Lin -- Entertainment for the afterlife / Duan Qingbo -- Appendix : scientific analysis -- Glossary -- List of exhibits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration acknowledgements -- Index.

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