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The primary source for information
related to this exhibition is the Museum catalogue:
Watt, James C.Y. China Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Other useful Met Museum publications
include:
Bunker, Emma C. Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Stepped:
The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections. New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni, ed. The Legacy of Genghis
Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Milleker, Elizabeth J., ed. The Year One: Art of the Ancient
World East and West. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 2000.
Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni, ed. The Legacy of Genghis
Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Watt, James C.Y.
"The Arts of Ancient China," The Metropolitan Museum
of Art Bulletin, Summer 1990.
Watt, James C.Y., and Anne E. Wardwell. When Silk was Gold:
Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1997.
Other relevant and readable texts:
Benn, Charles. China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the
Tang Dynasty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History
of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Foltz, Richard C. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade
and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Li, Wei, Yan, Xinzhi, and Shen Qinyan. Women of the Tang Dynasty.
The Genius of China: A Close Up Guide. Translated by Wu Qi. Hong
Kong: Airphoto International Ltd., 1999.
Tucker, Jonathan. The Silk Road: Art and History. Chicago:
Art Media Resources Ltd., 2003.
Whitfield, Susan. Life Along the Silk Road. London: John
Murray Ltd., 1999.
Whitfield, Susan, ed. The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and
Faith. Chicago: Serendia Publications Inc., 2004.
Wood, Frances. The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart
of Asia. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2002.
For younger students:
Cotterell, Arthur. Ancient China. Eyewitness Books. London:
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 1994.
Major, John S. The Silk Road: 7,000 Miles of History.
Illustrated by Stephen Fieser. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
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