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warriors must have been quite Bo Qianqiu'sTomb of the
vivid in the Chang'an area Former Han in Luoyang"),
during the early second
century bce, so that this "re- Wenwu, no. 6 (1977), pp. 17—22.
miniaturization" must have
been a conscious effort. 17. The tomb's excavation is
reported in Kaogu xuebao, no. 2
13. The most complete report
of this excavation is the Hunan (1964), pp. 107-25. General
Provincial Museum and introductions to the tomb
Archaeological Institute, CASS,
Changsha Mawangdui yihao include Jonathan Chaves, "A
Hanmu ("The Mawangdui Han Painted Tomb at
Tomb No. 1 in Changsha"), 2
Luoyang," Artibus Asiae 30
vols. (Beijing: Wenwu (1968), pp. 5-27; and Jan

chubanshe, 1973). For an Fontein and Wu Tung, Han and
English summary, see David Tang Murals (Boston: Museum

Buck, "The Han Dynasty of Fine Arts, 1976), p. 22.
Tomb at Mawangdui," World
18. For a detailed discussion of
Archaeology 7, no. 1 (1975),
pp. 30-45. this inscription and the

14. For a detailed discussion of Wucarvings, see Hung,
the architectural structure of
the Mawangdui tomb and its "Beyond the Great Boundary:
ritual function and symbolism,
Funerary Narrative in Early
Wusee Hung, "Art in Ritual
Chinese Art," in John Hay, ed..
Context: Rethinking
Mawangdui," Early China 17 Boundaries in China (London:
(1992), pp. rn-44.
Reaktion Books, 1994),

pp. 81-104.

15. According to archaeological
evidence, Mawangdui tomb
No. 1 was constructed after
Mawangdui tomb No. 3, which
belonged to Lady Dai's son
(d. 168 bce). See Hunan

Provincial Museum and
Archaeological Institute, CASS,
"Mawangdui ersanhao Han-
mu fajue de zhuyao shouhuo"

("The Mam Achievements

from the Excavation of

Mawangdui Tomb Nos. 2

and 3"), Kaogu, no. 1 (1975),
p. 47. Li Cang, Lady Dai's
husband, died in 186 BCE.

16. Paintings have been found
on the walls of a second-
century bce tomb in
Guangzhou, which belonged
to a king of Southern Yue. But
these include only decorative
patterns, thus differing from
the pictorial compositions in
first-century bce tombs near
Luoyang. The excavation of the
Ho Qianqiu tomb is reported
in Wenwu, no. 6 (1977),
pp. 1-12. Discussions of the
tomb murals include Chen
Shaofeng and 'Gong Dazhong,
"Luoyang Xi Han Bo Qianqiu
11111 bihua yishu" ("The Murals

in the Western Han Tomb of
Bo Qianqiu in Luoyang"),

Wenwu, no. 6 (1977), pp. 13-16;
and Sun Zuoyuu, "Luoyang
Qian Han Bo Qianqiu mil
bihua kaoshi" ("An
Interpretation of the Murals in

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