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Engels

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Uitgever

British Museum Press, London

Verschenen

2007

ISBN

9780714124513

9780714124476

Kenmerken

240 pagina's

Aantekening

Met lit. opg., index

with the assistance of Hiromi Kinoshita

Uitg. t.g.v. de gelijknamige tentoonstelling, British Museum London, 13 sep. 2007-6 apr. 2008

Introduction: the first emperor: the making of China / Jane Portal -- The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states / Robin D.S. Yates -- The first emperor and the Qin empire / Michael Loewe -- Qin coins / Helen Wang -- Qin palaces and architecture / Hiromi Kinoshita -- Qin gold and jade / Carol Michaelson -- Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions / Martin Kern -- The first emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe / Jessica Rawson -- A two-thousand-year-old underground empire / Wu Yongqi -- The terracotta army / Lukas Nickel -- Armour for the afterlife / James Lin -- Entertainment for the afterlife / Duan Qingbo -- Appendix: scientific analysis