Introduction to Ancient Chinese Stone Carving (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

This book makes a general introduction to ancient Chinese stone carving types and their evolution, persistence and discovery situation of ancient stone carvings, the situation of research on stone carvings of previous dynasties and common styles of stone carvings, and sums up how to interpret stone carving inscriptions and how to distinguish and identify the forgeries of stone carvings and rubbings. It is a basic work for readers to comprehensively and systematically understand ancient Chinese stone carvings. This book was published by the Cultural Relics Press in 1997. This is a revised and enlarged edition to add more content and add more than 200 plates, inserted with the text, which makes this book more readable and intuitive.