A Selection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes

Peking: Wenwu Press, 1976. Softcover. Good+ (Average wear to edges and title blocks; slight tanning of pages, illus. are clear.). Green pictorial & white wraps, title blocks on spine & laid-on front cover, French flaps, unpaginated. 12 color plates and many bw plates. Errata slip and booklet with English translation laid in. Main text is in Chinese, with a 26-page insert containing the English text. Approaches the 96 items in chronological order, from the Shang dynasty (c. 16th - 11th century BC) through the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220). Includes a select bibliography. "These bronzes reflect to a certain degree the class relationship in the political, economic and cultural fields in China's slave society and early feudal society, and supply important material for the study of ancient Chinese history." (foreword).