Chinese sculpture reading list

d'Argencé, R-YL (ed), Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in Avery Brundage Collection. Kodansha, 1979

Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993

National Palace Museum, The Crucible Of Compassion and Wisdom, Taipei, 1987. Exhibition Catalogue from the Nitta Collection

Paludan, Ann, The Chinese Spirit Road, Yale University Press, 1991. ISBN. 0 300 04597 2

Royal Academy of Art, Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries. London, 2002

Siren, O.  Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Centuries.  Four volumes, London 1925

Snellgrove, David (ed), The Image of the Buddha, UNESCO, 1978. ISBN. 0 906026 00 8

Sullivan, Michael, Cave Temples of Maichishan, Faber & Faber, 1969. ISBN. 571 09035 4

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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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