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HIST1405 Assignment 1
Name: Ho Yee Lam Student ID: 17226643

1. Wen Fong, “The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People’s Republic of China”, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.

The Bronze age collections provided by the China’s Cultural Relics Bureau are shown in this book. The catalogue not only displays a wide range of tools and objects in that era, many details, drawings, graphs and maps are also included.

2. Ying Wang, “Bronze Age China: Style and Material”, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010

This book studies on different kinds of ‘styles’ in Bronze age China, include the style of living, gender, social structure, division of workers, and craft specialization. Therefore, readers can understand more

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