The bilingual book comes in two volumes – one in English with 295 images and the other in Chinese. A well-researched and lavishly illustrated book, that offers a wealth of new facts, images and insights into the subject in a broad context.<\/p>\n
This book has detail research into saddle rugs from China and related areas like Inner-Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet. The research includes images of saddle rugs published in books, magazines and on the internet. The literature research the author conducted has not been exhaustive. The author has used major manuals, museum-collection and exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, magazines and other publications.<\/p>\n
Simply a must for anyone who loves textiles, horses or the history of China’s military, sports or culture.<\/p>\n
Text in English and Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Research into oriental carpets in general and Chinese carpets in particular. Simply a must for anyone who loves textiles, horses or the history of China’s military, sports or culture. Text in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements
\nIntroduction
\nMap of China
\nThe earliest saddle rugs: spring and autumn (770-476BC), Warring States(475-221 BC), Qin(221-207 BC) and Han periods(206BC-220AD)
\nThe three kingdoms up to and including the sui periods(220-617)
\nThe Tang (618-907), five dynasties(907-960) and Liao (916-1125)periods
\nThe northern and southern song (960-1127\/1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) periods
\nThe ming period(1368-1644)
\nThe Qing (1644-1911) and repudlican(1912-1949) periods
\nSaddle Rugs from Nigxia
\nSaddle Rugs from Gansu
\nSaddle Rugs from inner mongolia
\nSaddle Rugs from Xinjiang
\nSaddle Rugs from Beijing
\nSaddle Rugs from Tibet
\nConcluding remarks
\nTechnical details
\nGlossary
\nBibliogtaphy
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43904,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21060],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43886","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-decorative-arts","7":"author-by-author-koos-de-jong","8":"publisher-ca-book-publishing","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n