Introduction Chapter 1: Art in the Tomb Neolithic to Bronze Age: 2500-200 BCE The First Empires: 221 BCE -220 CE North and South: 220 CE-589 CE Tomb Sculpture: 400-650 CE Chapter 2: Art at Court Tang to early Song: 618-960 CE Northern Song Court Art: 960-1127 CE Southern Song Court Art: 1127-1279 CE Yuan Court Art: 1279-1368 CE Ming Court Art: 1368-1644 CE Early Qing Court Art: 1644-c.1735 CE The Qinglong Reign: 1736-1795 CE Late Qing Court Art: 1796-1911 CE Chapter 3: Art in the Temple Early Buddhist Art Buddhist Art: c.450-c.580 Religious Art of the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-906) Dynasties Religous Art of the Northern Song Dynasty: 960-1127 -Southern Song Religious Act: 1127-1279 Buddhist Monks and the Élite in the Southern Song Buddhist Art in the Yuan Dynasty: 1279-1398 Religious Painting of the Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries Religious Art of the Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 Religoius Art of the Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911 Chapter 4: Art in the Life of the Élite Calligraphy as an Élite Art Art and Theory in the Northern Song The Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 The Art and Theory of Dong Qichang: 1555-1636 The Seventeenth Century and the Ming-Qing Transition The Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911 The Nineteenth Century Chapter 5: Art in the Market-Place The Song and Yuan Dynasties: 960-1368 The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644): Painting The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644): Printing The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644): Textiles and Crafts The Amateur/Professional Problem in Late Ming Painting The Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911 Prints and Perspective Shanghai in the Nineteenth Century The Republic of China Art in the People's Republic of China Art in China since the 1970s Notes List of Illustrations Bibliographic Essay Museums and Galleries Websites Timeline Index Introduction 1. Art in the Tomb 2. Art at Court 3. Art in the Temple 4. Art in the Life of the Elite 5.

Art in the Market-Place Notes Bibliographic Essay Timeline List of Museums and Galleries Index.