The primary source for information about this exhibition is the catalogue, China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD, by James C. Y. Watt, with contributions by An Jiayao, Angela Howard, Boris Marshak, and Zhao Feng.

Project Director
Teresa M. Russo
Education

Author
Elizabeth Hammer
Education

Section essays and object descriptions
Denise Patry Leidy
Asian Art

Explore an Ancient Tomb
Jenny Liu
Asian Art

Additional writing
Edith Watts
Teresa M. Russo
Education

Designer
Osamu Takahashi
The Web Group

Production manager
Jonathan Munar
The Web Group

Digital Imaging
Michael Grantland
The Web Group

Managing Editors
Merantine Hens
Education
Elizabeth Block
The Web Group

Production Associate
Phoebe Ford
Education

Curatorial Advisor
Denise Patry Leidy
Asian Art

Maps and diagram of Yu Hong's sarcophagus by Anandaroop Roy.

Photographs of Li Jingxun's tomb from: Zhongguo shehui Kexueyuan Kaogu yanjiusuo (Institiute of Arachaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [CASS]). Tang Chang'an Cheng jiao Sui Tang mu (Excavation of the Sui and Tang tombs at Xi’an). Beijing: Wenwu Chubanshe, 1980, pp. 3–28. Illustrations adapted from the same publication by Teresa M. Russo.

Photographs of the chimera being removed from its crate by Karin Willis, the Photograph Studio of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With special thanks to James C. Y. Watt, Judith Smith, Maxwell K. Hearn, Stuart Pyhrr, Ken Moore, Lisa Pilosi, Kent Lydecker, Christine Scornavacca, Sophia Geronimus, Mansheng Wang, Jung May Lee Barratt, and the staff of Educational Media.

This resource for teachers and students was produced in conjunction with the exhibition China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 12, 2004 to January 23, 2005.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by The Starr Foundation.

Additional support for education programs has been provided by The Freeman Foundation.

Support for the catalogue has also been provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.