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| Specification |
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| Subject: |
Illustration Ancient Chinese Armour |
| Author: |
David Chen |
| Finishing Date: |
24th February, 2008 |
| Publishing house: |
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House |
| Extent: |
256 pages |
| Language: |
Simplified Chinese |
| Barcode: |
9787545800821 |
| Size: |
28.4*21.3*2.8 cm |
| Weight: |
1.5 Kg |
| Brand: |
Shanghai Century Publishing Co. |
| ASIN： |
B002D49296 |
| ISBN： |
9787545800821 |
| Publication Date: |
June，2009 |
| First printing: |
June，2009 |
| Second printing: |
August,2012 |
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| Introduction |
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As for the acquaintance with Chinese armours, people are both familiar with them and strange to them. For the familiar part, it is often known in the opera, painting, film television drama and other works. For the strange part, we don't know its real appearance: what's its structure? how to dress it? etc.. These questions excite our interests to know more about them. Although there are some strict, scientific publications related to these questions, most of them are the books focus on texts with lots of professional terms, which are really difficult to be accepted by common readers. In addition, during the various data of each dynasty of China, some of them are rich and complete, such as the discovery of QinShiHuang's Tomb, which provides complete and credible evidences to armour research. While,some of them are deficient, for there are no historical relics discovered in tombs of some dynasties, so no works can analyze armours in these times in detail and also that's why there are no complete answers for them.
Based on historical data, careful guidance from experts and the know ratio of armours in each dynasty together with right assumptions to describe the structure and wearing appearence of armour representives in each dynasty, we hope to display armours in each period entirely and visually. |
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1: This book is not as text-oriented, professional, bald, boring and inconvenient for reading as traditional academic books, but is a vivid book to interpretate the ancient Chinese culture with graphic methods completely. |
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2: Through the attempt to complete the historical information gap, we outline the armours' shape, materials, technology, structure and wearing ways carefully. |
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3: In order to maintain the style of this book, all the pictures including historical pictures for introduction are handmade vectorgraphs with high precision, which ensure this book with practical value and collection value. |
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| This book starts from Shang Dynasty to the Ching Dynasty with 2 to 3 warriors wearing images in each dynasty part, then explains each object of armours particularly. As for the important part (armet and platebody ), we will disassemble them and explain each one in detail. All the objects that warriors wear have the source introductions based on archaeological and historical data. If there are no historical evidences, we will complete them with proper assumptions. |
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