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History 114. China: Origins to 1600

Library guide to support students' research for their final projects on material culture in China during the Tang, Song, or Ming dynasties.

Reading About China Beyond Your Textbook

Cambridge History of China
Call Number: DS735 .C3145
ISBN: 0521214475
Publication Date: 1978
v. 3. Sui and Tʻang China, 589-906, pt. 1 -- v. 5, pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279 -- v. 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368 -- v. 7. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 1 -- v. 8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 2
Daily Life in Traditional China: The Tang Dynasty by Benn, Charles D., 1943-
Call Number: UM W.E.B. Du Bois ; DS721 .B44 2002
ISBN: 0313309558
Available in print or as e-book.
The age of Confucian rule : the Song transformation of China by Kuhn, Dieter, 1946-
Call Number: DS748.55 .K84 2009
ISBN: 0674031466
Publication Date: 2009
Daoist identity : history, lineage, and ritual
Call Number: B127.T3 D36 2002eb
ISBN: 0824825047
Publication Date: 2002

Subject Headings

Here are some of the subject headings that you can use to browse books on your time period in the Library Catalog.

China -- Civilization -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.

China -- Civilization -- 960-1644
China -- History -- 960-1644
China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279
China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
China -- Social life and customs -- 960-1644.

China & Material Culture

Children in Chinese art by Wicks, Ann Elizabeth Barrott, 1952-
Call Number: E-Book N7343.5 .C464 2002eb
ISBN: 9780585463506
Publication Date: 2002
Available in both print and e-book. Read carefully, this covers both Ming and Qing periods.
Empire of great brightness : visual and material cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 by Clunas, Craig.
Call Number: DS753.2 .C58 2007
ISBN: 0824831497
Publication Date: 2007
The Chinese scholar's studio : artistic life in the late Ming period
Call Number: N7343.5 .C47 1987
ISBN: 050001423X
Publication Date: 1987
Treasures of the Forbidden City
Call Number: N3750.P3 K913 1986
ISBN: 0670807958
Publication Date: 1986
A pictorial history of Chinese architecture : a study of the development of its structural system and the evolution of its types by Liang, Sicheng, 1901-
Call Number: NA1540 .L536 1984
ISBN: 0262121034
Publication Date: 1984

Subject Headings for Chinese Material Culture

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Subjects: Chinese, History

Tags: history, material_culture, ming_dynasty, song_dynasty, tang_dynasty, visual_culture