鄧淑蘋，探索歷史上的中亞玉作

2017

Monograph on archaic Chinese jades illustrated with examples from private collections. Wien, Edition Zacke, 2017 - ISBN 978-3-9503553-9-0

The Oxford Handbook of Early China, 2020

Late Neolithic-period China went through what I have identified is a Jade Age, from ca. 3500-2000 BCE. The era involved three key successive yet overlapping chronological cul tures, including the Hongshan of the northeast, Liangzhu of the southeast, and Longshan of greater China. Jade was the material par excellence that was exploited as a symbol of economic, social, and religious power. Exploiting jade and its concomitant symbols stimu lated advances that led to the flowering of civilization and China's earliest dynasties. This chapter explores how, in contrast to other late Neolithic cultures, jade-working cultures achieved advances in socio-political life.

Journal of the British Academy 6 (2018) DOI 10.5871/jba/006.001 For millennia, jade has been valued in many cultures in Chinese archaeology. The favoured types and sources of jade have changed over time, as has our knowledge of the stones themselves. One of the greatest problems in dealing with archaeological jades is the correct identification of the stones in order to trace their source and thereby understand the social relations underlying their patterns of procurement, pro­ duction, and consumption. This paper examines the problems of identification and sourcing of Chinese archaeological jades from a worldwide point of view, dissecting terminological problems arising from mineralogy and rock geochemistry, and expli­ citly identifying the geological constraints on the formation of nephrite and jadeite. In particular, the role of plate tectonics in determining the occurrence of jade provides an overarching perspective on where in China jade sources might occur and how nephrite might be mined and distributed, together with its associated rocks and minerals. The latter associations are equally important to this jade sourcing endeavour.

Arts of Asia 17:6 (November-December 1987): 123-30, 1987

In Taiwan, nephrite tools and ornaments have been identified from more than one hundred archaeological sites dated from 5,000 to 2,000 years ago. Sourcing studies indicate that most of the raw materials were collected from the Fengtian source region, located inland from Hualian in eastern Taiwan. Recently, some green nephrite ornaments excavated from the Batanes Islands, northern Luzon and Palawan in the Philippines, and from Sarawak in East Malaysia, have been recognized as extremely similar to those discovered in Taiwan. The similarities include the technology of manufacture, artifact style, and the mineralogy of the raw materials.

The World of Jade, pp. 49-64. Edited by Stephen Markel. Bombay, Marg Publications, 1992., 1992

Life and Afterlife in Han China. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2014

Asianart.com, 2008

Select Jades in the National Palace Museum, Vol. one, 2019

Genèse de l'Empire Céleste. Dragons, phénix et autres chimeres / The Beginning of the World According to the Chinese. Dragons, Phoenix and other Chimera, 2020

An overview of the role of jade in ancient Chinese views of the cosmos from the Neolithic to the Han dynasty