Picturing Heaven in Early China

Awards:   Nominated for James Henry Breasted Prize 2012 Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2013
Author:   Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Publisher:   Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN:  

9780674060692


Pages:   480
Publication Date:   25 July 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Picturing Heaven in Early China


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Awards

  • Nominated for James Henry Breasted Prize 2012
  • Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2013

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Author:   Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Publisher:   Harvard University, Asia Center
Imprint:   Harvard University, Asia Center
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.372kg
ISBN:  

9780674060692


ISBN 10:   0674060695
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   25 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Picturing Heaven in Early China makes an extremely important contribution to the history of Chinese art, culture, and science. Its comprehensive scope and analytical depth, its confident use of both primary textual sources and archeological evidence, its lucid synthesis of a vast array of scholarly literature . . . and above all, its cogent narrative and conceptual scheme make it the most convenient and reliable go-to volume on the subject.--Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor Of Asian Art, Harvard University


This remarkable book readably represents a formidable effort of research, drawing on the rich studies of history, art, and paleography that have accumulated over centuries, and particularly on the last forty years of archeology. Lillian Lan-ying Tseng colligates images that no one earlier has studied side by side, and draws from them quite original conclusions. I find her arguments ambitious, ingenious, and persuasive. . . . They show once and for all that pictures are as important as verbal records for understanding the history of cosmology and astronomy.--Nathan Sivin, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania Picturing Heaven in Early China makes an extremely important contribution to the history of Chinese art, culture, and science. Its comprehensive scope and analytical depth, its confident use of both primary textual sources and archeological evidence, its lucid synthesis of a vast array of scholarly literature . . . and above all, its cogent narrative and conceptual scheme make it the most convenient and reliable go-to volume on the subject.--Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University


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Lillian Lan-ying Tseng is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

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