TY - BOOK AU - Blunden,Caroline AU - Elvin,Mark TI - Cultural atlas of China /by Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin SN - 9780816038145 AV - DS721 .C858 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Checkmark Books N1 - "An Andromeda book"--Title page verso; 1 (pages 228-231) and index; Space --; The land and its peoples --; The natural environment --; Time --; The Archaic world --; The foundation of a culture --; Neolithic art --; Kinship and kingship --; Bronze age art --; The empire of Qin --; The underground army --; The Imperial age --; Politics and power --; Grand canals --; Art of the Imperial age --; The evolution of society --; Art of the Late Empire --; The Modern age --; Prospect and retrospect --; The film of events --; Art of the modern age --; Contemporary art --; Symbols and society --; Language, writing and calligraphy --; Voices in poetry --; From Confucius to Confucianism --; Religion --; Temple and palace architecture --; Medicine and geomancy --; Principles of mathematics --; Chinese ingenuity --; Ceramics --; Music in society --; Theater --; Family life --; China and the West --; Taiwan --; The Chinese diaspora; 2 N2 - Includes feature articles on Taiwan, the Chinese Diaspora, and China's natural environment with a focus on the water and the Three Gorges Dam project ER -