Chinese jade & hardstones reading list

Ayers, John and Rawson, Jessica  Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages. Oriental Ceramic Society, London, l975. A comprehensive exhibition that took place at the V&A.

Chung, Wah-pui, Michaelson, Carol & So, Jenny F., Chinese Jade Animals. Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996. An exhibition entirely of animal figures.

Hansford, S. Howard, Chinese Carved Jades. Faber & Faber, London, l968

Hansford, S. Howard, Chinese Jade Carving. Lund Humphries, London, l950

Ip, Yee, Chinese Jade Carving. Hong Kong Museum of Art, l983. ISBN. 962 215 054 3
    
Lam, Peter Y.K. (ed), Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue, Hong Kong, 1991. ISBN. 962 321 023 X

Loehr, Max, Ancient Chinese Jades, from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection In the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard.  Cambridge, Massachusetts, l975

Mou, Yongkang et al, Liangzhu Culture Jade. Woods Publishing, Hong Kong, 1989. Chinese text. ISBN. 962 321 0159

Palace Museum, Beijing Jade, Book I, II & III.  Hong Kong, 1995. Complete collection of jades in the Palace Museum, Beijing. Chinese text

Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing.  London, 1995. One of the best books on Chinese jade published in English. ISBN. 0 7141 1469 3

Scott, Rosemary (ed), Chinese Jades. Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No.18. Percival David  Foundation of Chinese Art, 1997

Teng, shu-p'ing, Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade. National Palace Museum, Taipei, l983

Watt, James C.Y., Chinese Jades from Han to Ching. The Asia Society/John Weatherhill Inc., l980. ISBN. 0 87848 056 0

Wilson, Ming, Chinese Jades. V&A Publication, 2004. Masterpieces from the V&A collection. ISBN. 1-85177-441-6

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Containing a profusion of illustrations from the V&A's world-class collection, Chinese Jades examines jades from the neolithic era to the 19th-cen…

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