An award-winning study of the ancient world, now back in print
Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by individuals who contributed greatly to the foundations of early Chinese culture. With Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China onto the men and women who made them.
Taking readers inside the private workshops, crowded marketplaces, and great palaces, temples, and tombs of early China, Barbieri-Low explores the lives and working conditions of artisans, meticulously documenting their role in early Chinese society and the economy. First published in 2007, winner of top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and now back in print, Artisans in Early Imperial China will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, as well as to scholars of comparative social history, labor history, and Asian art history.
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Artisans and Their Art in Context
2. Artisans in Society
3. Artisans in the Workshop
4. Artisans in the Marketplace
5. Artisans at Court
6. Artisans in Irons
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Artisans in Early Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007) and Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press, 2021); and coauthor of Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: Study and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247 (Brill, 2015) and Recarving China’s Past: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology of the “Wu Family Shrines” (Yale University Press, 2005).
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