Chinese Silks (The Culture & Civilization of China)

摘要

Chinese Silks is part of the pioneering series The Culture and Civilization of China, a cooperation between Chinese and Western scholars and publishers. Their stated goals 'are to illustrate the cultural riches of China, to explain China to both interested general readers and specialists, to present the best recent scholarship, and to make original and previously inaccessible resources available for the first time' (p. vii). Other books in the series cover, for example, ceramics, calligraphy and sculpture. Chinese Silks is the most comprehensive history of China's most luxurious textile yet written. The volume investigates recent archaeological textile finds and explores silk's enduring influences on Chinese civilisation and art throughout history.