Chinese silks / edited by Dieter Kuhn ; Chinese edition edited by Zhao Feng ; foreword by James C.Y. Watt ; contributions by Chen Juanjuan, Huang Nengfu, Dieter Kuhn, Li Wenying, Peng Hao, Zhao Feng ; translations by David Andrew Knight, Craig Shaw, Nicholas Morrow Williams.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxix, 571 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
Subjects
Silk--China. --History.

Other author/creatorKuhn, Dieter, 1946- editor.
Other author/creatorChen, Juanjuan.
Other author/creatorHuang, Nengfu.
Other author/creatorLi, Wenying.
Other author/creatorPeng, Hao.
Other author/creatorZhao, Feng, 1961-
SeriesThe culture & civilization of China
Culture & civilization of China. ^A398849
Contents Reading the Magnificence of Ancient and Medieval Chinese Silks -- Fashionable Weaves and Ingenious Craftsmanship / Dieter Kuhn -- The Origins of Sericulture and Silk Weaving-From Antiquity to the Zhou Dynasty / Peng Hao -- Silk Artistry of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties / Li Wenying -- Silk Artistry of the Northern and Southern Dynasties / Li Wenying -- Silk in the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties / Zhao Feng -- Silk in the Song, Liao, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties / Zhao Feng -- Divergent Styles of North and South-Silk Artistry of the Yuan Dynasty / Zhao Feng -- The Path to Refinement: Silk Fabrics of the Ming Dynasty -- Huang Nengfu & Chen Juanjuan -- Textile Art of the Qing Dynasty -- Chen Juanjuan & Huang Nengfu.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011047220
ISBN9780300111033 (alk. paper)
ISBN0300111037 (alk. paper)

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