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Stem Cup with a Shallow Bowl High Fired White earthenware (kaolin) with carved decorations Late Shang dynasty (12th C BC) |
| Years | Period | China | World |
| c1700-221 BCE | Bronze Age
Warring States Period Shang dynasty; Chou (Zhou) dynasty |
Shang dynasty;
Chou (Zhou) dynasty development of writing bronze casting Confucius Lao Tzu, Mozi Iron Tools |
Code of Hammurabi
Olmec in America Golden Age of Perikles Parthenon Rome Begins |
| c221- 206 BCE | Qin (Chin) dynasty | Unification
Centralized Bureaucracy standardized money, written language, Clay figures, Great Wall |
Rome Begins |
| 206 BCE-220CE | Han dynasty | Jade Suit
Silk Road Daoism Confuciunism made state philosophy Buddhism Introduced |
Pantheon
Colosseum Rise of Christianity |
| 220 - 579 CE | Six Dynasties
Sung, North, East and West Wei, Liang, Chen, Chi Chou |
Nomad Invasions,
Buddhism Grows Rock Cut Caves Monumental Buddhas |
Birth of Muhammad
Edict of Milan Hagia Sofia Separation of Churches |
| 568 - 617 CE | Sui | Reunification of China | |
| 618-907 | Tang dynasty | Repression of Buddhism
Examination System |
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1127-1279 South Sung Dynasty |
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Dark Ages |
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Yuan Dynasty |
Kublai Khan, Emperor of China founds Yuan dynasty; Marco Polo in China; |
Gothic to Renaissance Style; Martini, Giotto; Cimabue; Aztec Empire; Black Death in Europe |
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Black Death in China kills 30 percent of the population; Forbidden City is rebuilt; Shen Zhou and Dong Qichang; the literati |
Chaucer, Ghiberti, Michelangelo; the Reformation the Renaissance and the Baroque; the Enlightenment begins, Movable type printing press |
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Individualist Painters |
Baroque, Rococo, Enlightenment, Revolutions in Americas and France |
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Stem Cup with a Shallow Bowl High Fired White earthenware (kaolin) with carved decorations Late Shang dynasty (12th C BC) |
Ewer with Carved Flower Sprays Porcelain with molded and carved decoration and grayish-green glaze (celadon) Middle-late Northern Song 11th-12th C |
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 Porcelain with Molded Decoration and Creamy-white glaze, copper rim-band Jin (1115-1234) |
Vase with Floral Scrolls Porcelain with incised decorations and whitish glaze Yuan (1279-1368) Jiangxi Province |
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Vase with Floral Scrolls
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Stem-Cup with Dragon Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Late Yuan-early Ming (14th c) Jianxi Province, China |
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 Jiangxi province; Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424), porcelain with underglaze-blue decoration, "heap and pile" chrysanthemum, Camellia sassanqua, CameIIia japonica, morning glory, dianthus, peony gardenia, pomegranate, rose mallow an unidentified star-shaped flower, and a composite asterlike flower. Indian Mughal Shah Jahan in the year 1643-44. http://www.asianart.org/exhibits/collect_chin_c3.htm |
 Porcelain with underglaze-blue decoration Ming, Yongle-Xuande Period (1403-35) Jiangxi Province, China |
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Porcelain with underglaze-blue decoration Ming, Yongle-Xuande Period (1403-35) Jiangxi Province, China |
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Grayish Earthenware with red and painted decoration Eastern Wei (534-550) |
Woman in Western Clothes Holding a Tropical Bird Tang Dynasty (618-906) |
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| Inverted Pyriform Vase with Scenes of Li Bai (Li Po)
Enjoying some Wine
Stoneware with slip and underglaze decoration in red and black 13th-15th centuries Northern China In 756 Li Po became unofficial poet laureate to the military expedition of Prince Lin, the emperor's 16th son. The prince was soon accused of intending to set up an independent kingdom and was executed; Li Po was arrested and imprisoned at Chiu-chiang. A high official, reviewing sentences passed in connection with the troubles, looked into Li Po's case, had him released, and made him a staff secretary. In the summer of 758 the charges against Li Po were revived, and he was banished to Yeh-lang. Before he arrived, he benefited by a general amnesty; he returned to eastern China, where he died in a relative's house, though popular legend says that he drowned when, sitting drunk in a boat, he tried to seize the moon's reflection in the water. |
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Drinking Alone
I take my wine jug out among the flowers
I raise my cup to entice the moon.
But the moon doesn't drink,
I will travel with moon and shadow,
When I sing, the moon dances.
We share life's joys when sober.
Constant friends, although we wander,
Li T'ai-po (Li Bai)
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Shang Hai Zuibai Pond (Pond of Drunken Poet Bai) in the south of Chengzhen Town of Songjiang County, was constructed during the period from 1662-1722(in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty). It was originally the place where a famous painter named Dong Qichang of Ming dynasty wrote poems and drank wine. In Qing Dynasty, the owner reconstructed it in memory of the great poet called Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty and named it "Zui Bai Pond". It is embraced by pavilions and winding corridors and has many historical sites. |
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Mountain and Figures in a landscape for a brush stand
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Mountain Early Qing dynasty, late 1700's |
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Dong Qichang 1555-1636 [Tung Chi-Chang] Poem by Mi Fu in Running Script Not dated, handscroll (section), ink on paper, 41 x 461 cm Ming |
Dong Qichang 1555-1636 [Tung Chi-Chang] Freehand Copy of Zhang Xus Writing of the Stone Record Ink on satin Ming |
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Dong Qichang 1555-1636 [Tung Chi-Chang] The Qingbian Mountains, 1617 Ming "Read ten thousand books and walk ten thousand miles"
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Shen Zhou Poet on a Mountain, c1500 Ming |
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A stone ledge flying in space and the far thin road. I lean alone on my bramble staff and gazing contented into space Wish the sounding torrent would answer to your flute. Shen Zhou
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Shen Zhou Poet on a Mountain, c1500 Ming |
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Jar with Farewell Scene porcelain with polychrome underglaze and overglaze decoration Qing (1622-1722) |
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To Wang Lun
Li Po takes a boat and is about to depart When suddenly he hears the sound of footsteps and singing on the shore. The water in the Peach Blossom pool is a thousand feet deep But not as deep as Wang Lun's parting love for me By Li Bai
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