The Grandeur of China: Complete Eight-Book Set

Through a rigorous and detailed examination of China’s vast heritage of ancient civilization, including crafts, artworks, music and dance, literature, architecture, utensils, and all kinds of documents, this book traces the evolution of Chinese aesthetic culture. It explores how the production, lifestyles, beliefs, and ways of thinking of different periods shaped their aesthetic objects, as well as the patterns governing how those objects evolved, such as the relationship between freedom and rules, simplicity and splendor, the popular and the refined, realism and freehand expression, and the sublime and the beautiful. Together, these studies clearly reveal the trajectory of China’s ancient aesthetic culture.