Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines

by Michael Nylan, Anthony Barbieri-Low, Cary Y. Liu

The "Wu Family Shrines," one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved reliefs may have been intended to reflect such basic themes as loyalty to the emperor, filial piety, and wifely devotion; centuries later, they vividly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300107978
• ISBN13: 9780300107975
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 8.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 10.3" x 11.8"