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High Museum of Art
Language
English
Pages
240

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Subjects
Tomb, Excavations (Archaeology), Antiquities, Terra-cotta sculpture, Chinese, History, Qin shi huang, emperor of china, 259 b.c-210 b.c., Terra-cotta sculpture, Excavations (archaeology), asia, China, antiquities, Shaanxi sheng (china), Sculpture, exhibitions
People
Qin shi huang Emperor of China (259-210 B.C)
Places
China
Times
Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D., Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C.

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Cover of: First Emperor
First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
2010, Harvard University Press
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Cover of: The first emperor
The first emperor: China's Terracotta Army
2008, High Museum of Art
in English
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The first emperor: China's terracotta army
2007, British Museum
in English
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First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
Mar 19, 2007, Harvard University Press
in English
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Table of Contents

Sponsor's foreword
Director's foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction : the First Emperor : the making of China / Jane Portal
The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states / Robin D.S. Yates
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
Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions / Martin Kern
The First Emperor's tomb : the afterlife universe / Jessica Rawson
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.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : British Museum Press, 2007.

This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from 16 November 2008 to 19 April 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.

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Atlanta, GA

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Dewey Decimal Class
931.04
Library of Congress
DS747.9.Q254 F57 2008

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240 pages
Number of pages
240

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OL27825492M
Internet Archive
firstemperorchin0000unse
ISBN 10
1932543260, 1932543252
ISBN 13
9781932543261, 9781932543254
OCLC/WorldCat
498504649

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