Page 51 - China, 5000 years : innovation and transformation in the arts
P. 51
Five Thousand Years
of Chinese Culture
Yu Weichao
Director, National Museum of
Chinese History
Recent years have seen a growing
attempt to understand the Chinese artistic
tradition—like the world's other artistic
traditions—by relating it to its cultural
context. In so short an essay, however, on<^
can only sketch the outline of a
conceptual framework for this topic, which
spans the entire Eurasian land mass over
more than four millennia.
