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Beauty And Treasures Of Imperial Beijing

 
 
Suggested reading and resources

Information can be found on the websites of our cooperating institutions:

   The Chinese Parade of San Francisco
   The Chinese Historical Society of America
   The San Francisco Asian Art Museum

The names of authors who are speakers at
Beauty And Treasures Of Imperial Beijing are indicated in bold type.


Beguin, Gilles and Dominique Morel, The Forbidden City, Center of Imperial China. Abrams, 1997

Chinese Imperial City Planning. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

He Li, Chinese Ceramics, 1996

Hearn, Maxwell K., Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, 1996

Chuimei Ho and Bennett Bronson. Splendors of China’s Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong. Merrell Publishers, 2004

Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, 1989)
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
(New Haven and London, 1997)
Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
(Stanford, 1995)
Trancience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century


Johnston, Reginald F., Twilight in the Forbidden City, 1934

Keswick, Maggie, The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martins Press, 1986

Liu, Laurence G., Chinese Architecture. New York, Rizzoli, 1989.

Mote, Frederick W., Imperial China, 2000

Naquin, Susan, Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Reigel, Jeffrey and John Knoblock, The Annals of Lü Buwei, Stanford University Press, 2001.

Sickman, Laurence and Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of China. Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin, 1978.

Spence, Jonathan The Search for Modern China, Norton, 1990
From Ming to Ch'ing : Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-
Century China.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979
The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds, 1984

Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen, Daily Life in the Forbidden City, 1998

Yang Xin and Zhu Chengru. Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China’s Imperial Palace. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, in association with the Palace Museum, Beijing.
 
     
 
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