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                            The works of art  included  in the  exhibition are  CONTRIBUTORS  TO  THE  CATALOGUE
                            representative of four periods, corresponding
                            to sections  of this catalogue: Late Prehistoric  RB  Richard  M.  Barnhart
                            China (c. 5000-2000 BCE), Bronze Age China   AD    Albert  E.  Dien
                            (c. 2000-771 BCE), Chu and Other Cultures    LVF   Lothar  von  Falkenhausen
                            (c. 770-221 BCE), and  Early Imperial China  LF-H  Louisa G.  Fitzgerald-Huber
                            (221 BCE-924 CE). The order of presentation  is  DH  Donald  Harper
                            chronological, with exhibited works from  the  DNK  David N.  Keightley
                            same culture or find site presented  in groups.  LK  Ladislav Kesner
                                 The  Pinyin system of romanization  has
                            been used throughout. Chinese characters,    MK    Michael  Knight
                                                                         DK    Dieter  Kuhn
                            which appear  in the  concordance  beginning
                            on page  556, are written in  nonsimplified  CM    Colin  Mackenzie
                            characters.                                  EP    Elinor  L.  Pearlstein
                                 For some matters treated  here, a unified  JR  Jessica Rawson
                            terminology does not  exist; for instance,   ES    Edward  L.  Shaughnessy
                            authors' usage of terms such as the "upper,"  zs   Zhixin Sun
                            "middle," or  "lower" Yellow or  Yangzi  River  RT  Robert  L. Thorp
                            may sometimes be subjective and  may not     AT    Alain Thote
                            follow  a strict  geographic  designation.   RW    Roderick  Whitfield
                                 Hardstone objects from  China tradition-
                            ally described  as "jade" (yu), and particularly  SB  Su  Bai
                            carvings dated  after  the  second  millennium  XM  Xia  Mingcai
                            BCE, are usually nephrite. Neolithic hardstone  XP  Xu  Pingfang
                            carvings were made from  a variety of hard, com-  XY  Xiaoneng Yang
                            pacted  minerals that  assume a high luster when  YW  Yu Weichao
                            polished: nephrite, serpentine, fluorite,  and  zz  Zhang Zhongpei
                            other minerals not  always easily distinguished  ZH  Zou  Heng
                            by visual inspection. For this reason, the  desig-
                            nation "jade" is used throughout the  titles in
                            the exhibition.
                                 Dimensions of the  objects are given in
                            centimeters, followed  by equivalent inches in
                            parentheses. Weights, to the  extent germane,
                            are given in kilograms, followed  by equivalent
                            pounds  in  parentheses.
                                 While every effort  has been  made to
                            present  the  most current scholarship, it goes
                            without saying that some of the  views published
                            here  may one  day be superseded by future
                            discoveries.





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