Page 32 - China, 5000 years : innovation and transformation in the arts

Introduction

Sherman Lee

Director (retired),

Cleveland Museum of Art

Vast generalities of time and space are

unavoidable when discussing traditional

Chinese art, for only with their aid

do the main achievements of that long-

lived culture become clearly apparent.

This easier access comes at a cost,

however, since significant regional

diversity is obscured and homogenized
into an undifferentiated whole, and

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