3b china + korea

Qin dynasty warriors (terracotta)

How china got its name

Qin wants to be immortal, makes a tomb just in case

Terracotta warriors found beneath tomb

Representation of the world

7l figures uncovered

Surrogates representing Qins army

Substitute for sacrifices

Civil war, Qins son tries to take over (bad guy)

When he dies, revolt and overthrown

Sparks Han dynasty

During Han dynasty, they conquer nomadic land westward and expand trading routes across Asia for the first time. Becomes Silk Road

Banner of lady of dai, silk

Han dynasty warriors

Tomb filled with charcoal and white clay

Mummified and w personal objects

Real name Xin Zhui

Banner went over sarcophagi

Nesting doll coffins

Tigers and dragons for protection

Lower area is real world, upper is heaven

Middle area is ground plane and drawing of lady dai

Insight to Han cosmology beliefs

No bad place depicted

Crow w sun, toad w moon

Great ancestor with serpent tail In Middle

Long men caves

Tang dynasty (during period of disunity)

Emperor Gaoxang committed to Buddhism

Wife, Wu, even more so (Buddhist nun)

Esoteric Buddhism emerges, emphasizes the ability of priests and monks to

Series of sculptures and shrines carved in mountains near Luoyang

Small caves w Pentad: five figures

Buddha, 2 arrats (enlightened by Buddha) 2 Bodhisattvas (close to enlightenment)

Most important: Fengxian temple

Vairochana Buddha

Travelers among mountains and streams

Ink on silk

Artist: Fan Kuan

Dynasty: Song

Neoconfuscianism: mix of nature and collective duty

Nature provides ideal model on how the human life should be

Mountains are masculine, yang

River is feminine, yin

Artist expressing search for cultivation

Nature is dominant force

David vases

Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty

Produced In kiln jingdezhen, jianxi province, china

Imitate ancient ritual bronze vessels

Dragon and phoenix represent yin and yang and gendered imperial authority

Commissioner: Zhang Wenjin

Religious offering to Daoist temple along w an incense burner

Cobalt from Iran

Named after Percival David, a collector who bought the vases

The forbidden city

Beijing

Ming dynasty

Off limits to everyone but emperor and royal family had to stay

24 enterprises ruled

Represents harmony

Ming moved capital to North (Beijing)