This course covers units: Neolithic and bronze age art, culture and burial practices, the establishment of lacquer, silk, jade and painting traditions, Buddhist art in china from the Han to the Qing dynasties, the silk road and the international status of ceramics, precious metals, paper making and printing, the golden age of the song dynasty: ceramics, painting, calligraphy, lacquer and sculpture and the reinvention of the past, Liao and Yuan artistic production under foreign rule, the rise of Jingdezhen, china’s major porcelain centre, the re-establishment of Chinese rule under the Ming dynasty and its artistic expression, etc.