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Pending. For now, Ledderose 2000 provides a good introduction.
The focus of this bibliography is animal motifs on Shang bronzes, their primary decoration. But the bibliography includes general sources about Shang bronzes as well. For a good introduction to bronzes, I recommend starting with Ledderose 2000.
Bibliography in mixed Chicago / AJA format
* Indicates a particularly important study
Allan, Sarah. “Myth and Meaning in Shang Bronze Motifs.” Early China nos. 11-12 (1985-1987): 283-289 (Available at GMU)
Allan, Sarah. The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991. (Available at GMU)
Allan, S. 1999. "Chinese Bronzes through Western Eyes." In Exploring China's Past, R. Whitfield and T. Wang, Eds. London, 63-76. (Smithsonian)
---. 2010. "He flies like a bird; he dives like a dragon; who is that man in the tiger mouth? Shamanic Images in Shang and Early Western Zhou Art" Orientations 41 (3) 45-51. (Smithsonian)
Bagley, R. 1990a. "A Shang City in Sichuan Province." Orientations (Nov. 1990): 52-67. (Smithsonian)
---. 1990b. "Shang Ritual Bronzes: Casting Technique and Vessel Design" Archives of Asian Art 43: 6-20. (Smithsonian)
Bagley, R., Ed. 2001. Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization. Seattle and Princeton: Seattle Art Museum and Princeton University Press. (Available at NOVA)
Bagley, R., J. Rawson, J. So, et al. Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass: Arthur M. Sackler Foundation; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1987. (Available at GMU)
British Museum. Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1987. (Available at the Smithsonian libraries)
*Chang, K.C. “The Animal in Shang and Chou Bronze Art.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 41 no. 2 (1981): 527-554. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2719054)
---. 1990. "The 'meaning' of Shang Bronze Art." Asian Art 3 (2): 9-19. (Available at GMU)
Guang in the form of a tiger, owl, and bird ca 1300-1200 B.C. (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Huo in the form of an elephant with taotie masks and kui dragons
ca 11th century B.C. (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Childs-Johnson, E. 1989. "The Shang Bird: Intermediary to the Supernatural" Orientations 53-60. (Ask me for a copy or Google)
Davidson, J. Le Roy. "The Riddle of the Bottle-Horn." Artibus Asiae 22, no. 1/2 (1959): 15-22. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3249139).
Ebrey, P. 2010. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Available at NOVA)
Keightley, D. 2000. The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China (ca 1200-1045 BC). Berkeley, University of California Press. (Available at Smithsonian)
Keightley, D. 2006. "Marks and labels : early writing in Neolithic and Shang China" In Stark, M., Ed. Archaeology of Asia. Oxford: Blackwell, 177-201. (Available at GMU)
*Kesner, Ladislav. “The Taotie Reconsidered: Meanings and Functions of the Shang Theriomorphic Imagery.” Artibus Asiae 51, no. 1/2 (1991): 29-53. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3249675)
Kwang-chih, C., et al. The Formation of Chinese Civilization : An Archaeological Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. (Available at GMU)
Laun, K. 2009. Four Shang Bronzes: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Anyang Period of the Shang Dynasty. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag. (Unavailable locally - could be important and worth requesting)
*Ledderose, L. 2000. “Casting Bronze the Complicated Way” In Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 25-49. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Full volume available at NOVA)
Linduff, Katheryn M. Tradition, Phase, and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels. New York: Garland Pub., 1979. (Available at Smithsonian)
Liu, Li. 2003. "The Products of Minds as well as Hands: Production of prestige goods in the Neolithic and Early State Periods of China." Asian Perspectives 42 (1) 1-40. (ProQuest via NOVA library or ask me for a copy)
*Loehr, M. 1953. "The Bronze Styles of the Anyang Period" Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 7: 42-53. (Requesting access)
Mei, J., K. Chen, and W. Cao. 2009. "Scientific Examination of Shang-dynasty bronzes from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China" Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (9) 1881-1891. (Available at GMU)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wen Fong Hearn, introductory essays by Ma Chengyuan ...[et al.], and catalogue by Robert W.Bagley, Jenny F.So, Maxwell K. The Great Bronze Age of China : An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. (Available at NOVA, GMU)
Moreno, E. 2003. "The Problems in the Interpretation of the taotie motif on Shang bronzes." East Asia Journal: Studies in Material Culture 1 (1): 9-15. (Unavailable locally)
*Paper, J. 1978. "The Meaning of the 'T'ao-T'ieh'" History of Religions 18 (1) 18-41. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1062246)
Peifen, Chen. “Animal Mask Designs on Shang and Zhou Bronzes.” Orientations 22 no. 2 (1991) 41-7.
Rawson, Jessica. “The Ritual Bronze Vessels of the Shang and the Zhou.” In Mysteries of Ancient China. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Rawson, Jessica. "Commanding the spirits: control through bronze and jade" Orientations 29 no. 2 (1998) 33-45.
Thorp, Robert L. "The Sui Xian Tomb: Re-Thinking the Fifth Century." Artibus Asiae 43, no. 1/2 (1981): 67-110. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3249827)
Wai-Kam, H. 1964. "Shang and Chou Bronzes" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51 (7): 175-87. (Available at GMU or request JSTOR access from the library.)
Whitfield, R., Ed. 1992. The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (Smithsonian)
*Wu, H. 1992. "Art in Ritual Context" Early China 17: 111-144. (Journal of the Society for the Study of Early China - Periodicals at GMU)
Xu, Jay. “The Diamond-back Dragon of the Late Shang Period.” Orientations 29 no. 5 (1998): 42-54.
Xun, Wang and Zhijun, Zhao. “Tiger Decoration on Early Bronzes.” Orientations 30, no. 7 (1999): 71-74.
*Yu, Ying-shih. 1987. "'O Soul, come back!': A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in pre-Buddhist China" HJAS 47 (2): 363-95. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2719187)
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