Through the Moon Gate.Guide to China's Historic Monuments

Edited By the China People's Publishing House of Fine Arts

ISBN 10: 0195840771 / ISBN 13: 9780195840773

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1986

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Hardback. First Edition. Small tear to top edge of front D/J. It is easy to be overawed by the scale of China: the distances, its huge population, the length of its recorded history, the diversity of its people and their cultures. Guidebooks become unmanageably large or uselessly superficial, while picture books either lack any coherent theme or are too focused to encapsulate the experience of China. This book describes the hundred most important monuments of China. They have been selected so as to show the development of Chinese art and architecture over the millennia, and to do so in a way which also reflects both - indigenous and imported - and the immense geographical scope of Chinese civilization. Gardens and temples, mausolea and palaces, caves and graves, bridges and pagodas - this book provides a spectacular survey, equally suitable for the real visitor or the armchair traveller. Illustrated. 313 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Through the Moon Gate.Guide to China's Historic Monuments
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195840771
• ISBN 13: 9780195840773
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Through the Moon Gate is a spectacular illustrated survey of the most important of China's fabled ancient monuments. The one hundred sites selected for the book range from a cave where Peking Man was discovered to architectural wonders built in the modern period. Gardens and temples, mausolea and palaces, bridges and pagodas are all included in this fascinating guide.
The monuments have been chosen to show the development of Chinese art and architecture over the millenia, and to do so in a way that reflects both the dazzling variety of cultural influences -- the indigenous and the imported -- and the immense geographical scope of Chinese civilization. This guided tour takes the reader from the old Forbidden City (now the Palace Museum) in Beijing, the Great Wall at Badaling and the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Shaanxi Province to Potala, the Tibetan palace of the Dalai Lamas, the tomb of Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia and the Temple of Confucius in Taiwan. For visitors to China the book also provides location and transportation information.