Chinese Jades

Sources in bold are readily accessible.

Bibliography

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Cranmer-Byng, L. 18-?. A Lute of Jade: being selections from the classical poets of China. Project Gutenberg. (Available for free download if you Google the title) (This book is not on jade objects, but the poems it contains make a number of references to jades, and may prove compelling.)

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Till, Barry. Chinese Jade : Stone for the Emperors. Victoria, B.C: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1986.

Tucker, E. 1982. "Jade forms from Ancient China" Gems and Gemology 18 (1) Spring 1982: 20-31. (Unavailable locally)

Wall, J. and Asia House Gallery. 1980. Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing. New York: Asia Society in association with J. Weatherhill. (Smithsonian, Georgetown, LoC)

Watt, J. 1980. Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing. New York: Asia Society, in association with J. Weatherhill. (Available at Smithsonian, Georgetown, LoC)

Wechsler, H. 1985. Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the Tang Dynasty. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 55-77. (Available at GMU)

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Wills, Geoffrey: Jade of the East. New York 1972. (LoC, Smithsonian)

Wilson, M. 2004. Chinese Jades. London: V & A Publications, New York: Harry Abrams. (Available at GMU: NK5750.3 C6 W55 2004)

Wu, H. 1989. The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. (Available at GMU)

Xu, J. 1996. "The Cemetery of the Western Zhou Lords of Jin" Artibus Asiae 56 (3/4) 193-231. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3250117) (The article discusses the discovery of a burial, which contained jades among other artifacts. It is useful for understanding the context of jades and their use.)

Yang, Y. 1996. “The Chinese Jade Culture.” In Mysteries of Ancient China, edited by J. Rawson, 225-231. London and New York: G. Braziller.

Yee, Ip: Chinese Jade Carving. Hong Kong Museum of Art. Hong Kong 1983. (Smithsonian)