Ming : 50 years that changed China

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Label

Ming : 50 years that changed China

Title remainder

50 years that changed China

Statement of responsibility

edited by Craig Clunas and Jessica Harrison-Hall

Title variation

• 50 years that changed China
• Fifty years that changed China

Contributor

• British Museum
• Clunas, Craig
• Harrison-Hall, Jessica

Author

• Harrison-Hall, Jessica
• Clunas, Craig

Editor

• Harrison-Hall, Jessica
• Clunas, Craig

Host institution

• British Museum

Subject

• Art objects, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties
• Art objects, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 -- Exhibitions
• Art objects, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 -- Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties
• Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 -- Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties,1368-1912 -- Exhibitions
• Catalogues d'exposition
• China
• China -- Civilization -- 960-1644 -- Exhibitions
• China -- Civilization -- 960-1644 -- Exhibitions
• China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Exhibitions
• China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Exhibitions
• Chine -- Civilisation -- 960-1644 -- Expositions
• Chine -- Histoire -- 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming) -- Expositions
• Civilization
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• History
• Objets d'art chinois -- 1368-1912 (Dynastie des Ming et dynastie mandchoue) -- Expositions
• exhibition catalogs
• 960 - 1912
• Art chinois -- 1368-1912 (Dynastie des Ming et dynastie mandchoue) -- Expositions

Genre

• Expositions
• exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition
• History

Language

eng

Summary

This was an age of great voyages of exploration, undertaken for many reasons including trade and diplomacy. Long before the regular arrivals of Europeans in China, court-sponsored expeditions were sent to Asia, the Middle East, and the African coast, bringing back knowledge of and objects from lands thousands of miles away - gold, gems and foreign fashions. This period also saw the compilation of the world's first comprehensive encyclopaedia (worked on by over 2,000 scholars); the undertaking of major building projects such as the Forbidden City and Ming tombs; the creation of beautiful textiles, paintings, ceramics, gold, jewellery, furniture, jade, and lacquer

Cataloging source

SNN

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs