Images from the tomb: Chinese burial figurines = Figurines funéraires chinoises, ou, Images des tombes

This is a catalogue for an exhibition of ancient Chinese tomb figures, held February 11 - April 12, 1988.

'No other country in the world can match China in the number of ancient tombs being discovered and excavated. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, tens of thousands

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of ancient tombs from Neolithic times to the Qing period have been excavated. China has one of the greatest and longest mortuary art legacies. It is not our purpose to analyze the burial customs of ancient China in this short study, interesting though it might be, but to examine the ceramic tomb figurines placed in the grave.'

(Abstract from introduction by Barry Till)

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