First Emperor - China''s Terracotta Army

Informationen zum Autor Jane Portal is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Martin Kern is Professor of Chinese Literature in the East Asian Studies Department at Princeton University. Hiromi Kinoshita is Exhibitions Assistant in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Michael Loewe was University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge University from 1963 to 1990 and is now an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall. He edited the Cambridge History of China volume 1 (CUP 1986). Carol Michaelson is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Lukas Nickel is Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology at SOAS and University College! London. Duan Qingbo is a Research Fellow at the Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology. Jessica Rawson is Warden of Merton College! Oxford and was Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum from 1987 - 94. Helen Wang is Curator of East Asian Money in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. Wu Yongqi is Director of the Museum of the Terracotta Army. Robin Yates is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at McGill University and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China. Klappentext The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC. This book unfolds the historical and archaeological context of the Terracotta Warriors! and explores the research and excavation that has been carried out in the years since the first discovery in 1974.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Duan Portal, PORTAL JANE DUAN QINGBO
• Assisted by: Jane Portal (Editor), The British Museum (Editor)
• Publisher: British Museum Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780714124476
• ISBN: 978-0-7141-2447-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business; Terrakotta-Armee, China : Archäologie