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1980S CHINESE NEW YEAR PRINT FROM WEIFANG IN SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA 刻版王太平張傳信中國濰坊年畫社？.

38 SMALL BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF KOREA TAKEN IN 1927 PLUS ONE COLOUR POSTCARD 1920s

Akiyama Terukazu:
- HEIAN JIDAI SEZOKUGA NO KENKYU
Secular Painting in Early Mediaeval Japan

Alcock, Sir Rutherford:
- THE CAPITAL OF THE TYCOON: A NARRATIVE OF A THREE YEARS' RESIDENCE IN JAPAN

Allison, Effie B. and Arakawa Toyozo:
- EXHIBITION OF ORIENTAL BLUE AND WHITE FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JOHN M. ALLISON

Almqvist, Kurt ed:
- THE SAMPANS FROM CANTON

Alonso, Mary Ellen ed:
- CHINA'S INNER ASIAN FRONTIER

Anderson, William:
- JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS

Archaeological Research Institute ed:
- QINGHAI LIUWAN
Excavation of a Primitive Society Cemetery at Liuwan in Qinghai 青海 榴灣.

Archer, Mildred:
- COMPANY DRAWINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY

Army Security Agency:
- SUPPLEMENTARY CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Necipoglu, Gulru ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 23

ART AND ARTIFICE

ART DE L'EXTREME ORIENT

Art Museum, Chinese University HK:
- JINYAO FENGHUA: MENGDIE XUAN CANG ZHONGGUO GUDAI JIN SHI
Radiant Legacy: Ancient Chinese Gold from the Mengdiexuan Collection 金曜風華 ： 夢蝶軒藏中國古代金飾.

Asia Society Galleries ed:
- PICTURING HONG KONG

GGM199
Gugong Museum: XUMIFUSHOU - DANG ZHASHILUNBU SI YUSHANG ZIJINCHENG ZHAN. (Fortune and Longevity of Sumeru: The Zhashilunbu Monastery Comes to the Forbidden City). 須彌福壽 - 當扎什倫布寺遇上紫禁城展. Beijing, 2020. 603 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 38x26 cm. Wrappers.
GBP 280.00
Massive and weighty publication produced to accompany a memorable exhibition held in the Gugong Museum, Beijing, in late 2019 and early 2020. The huge Zhashilunbu Monastery is also known as the Tashilimpo Monastery and is located near Shigatse in Tibet. This important monastery has a rich and long history and has accumulated many religious artefacts over the centuries.
 Over 220 extremely fine exhibits were shown - 140 from the Gugong Museum collection and 80 or so from the Monastery's collections. Explores the Monastery's long cultural legacy and, not least, the tributary relationship between Tibet and the Qing court in the 17th and 18th centuries when the Qing rulers sought to unify the people and religions of their vast country. It also underlines the Qing emperors' fascination with Tibetan Buddhism, particularly during the Qianlong reign. Exhibits include Buddhist gilt-bronze statuary dating from the 9th century onwards. tangkas, sutras, religious objects, textiles and ceramics. Much Qing material. Many exceptional objects, most on public display for the first time. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese. Hard to obtain.
Subjects: Religion
Item 119 in List 212.
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