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Chinese art
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Painting
Sculpture
Ceramics
Decorative arts
Architecture
Chinoiserie
History and development of Chinese art
Neolithic pottery
Jade culture
Bronze casting
Chu and Southern culture
Early Imperial China (221 BC–AD 220)
Qin art
Han art
Period of division (220–581)
Influence of Buddhism
Calligraphy
Painting
The Sui and Tang dynasties (581–960)
Buddhist architecture and sculpture
Painting
The Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368)
Song painting
Yuan painting
Pottery
Late imperial China (1368–1911)
Ming painting
Early Qing painting
Late Qing Art
Shanghai School
New China art (1912–1949)
Modern Art Movement
Postwar Chinese Art (1949–1976)
The Mainland
The 17 Years
The Cultural Revolution
Taiwan
Fifth Moon Group五月畫會
Ton-Fan Art Group東方畫會
Hong Kong
Overseas
Paris
United States
Redevelopment (mid-1980s – 1990s)
Contemporary art
Visual art
Art market
Museums
See also
References
Additional sources
Further reading
External links

Content: Christian
Catholic
Protestant
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Islamic
Hindu
Jain
By technique: Sculpture
Painting
Pottery
Calligraphy
Architecture
Photography
Graphic arts
Digital art
By type: Narrative
Figurative
Naturalist
Symbolic
Naïve
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History of China
ANCIENT
Neolithic c. 8500 – c. 2070 BCE
Xia c. 2070 – c. 1600 BCE
Shang c. 1600 – c. 1046 BCE
Zhou c. 1046 – 256 BCE
Western Zhou
Eastern Zhou
Spring and Autumn
Warring States
IMPERIAL
Qin 221–207 BCE
Han 202 BCE – 220 CE
Western Han
Xin
Eastern Han
Three Kingdoms 220–280
Wei, Shu and Wu
Jin 266–420
Western Jin
Eastern Jin
Sixteen Kingdoms
Northern and Southern dynasties
420–589
Sui 581–618
Tang 618–907
( Wu Zhou 690–705)
Five Dynasties and
Ten Kingdoms
907–979
Liao 916–1125
Song 960–1279

Northern Song

Western Xia
Southern Song
Jin

Western Liao
Yuan 1271–1368
Ming 1368–1644
Qing 1636–1912
MODERN
Republic of China on the mainland 1912–1949
People's Republic of China 1949–present
Republic of China in Taiwan 1949–present
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Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists. The Chinese art in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and that of overseas Chinese can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on Chinese heritage and Chinese culture. Early " Stone Age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. After this early period Chinese art, like Chinese history, is typically classified by the succession of ruling dynasties of Chinese emperors, most of which lasted several hundred years. Chinese art has arguably the oldest continuous tradition in the world, and is marked by an unusual degree of continuity within, and consciousness of, that tradition, lacking an equivalent to the Western collapse and gradual recovery of classical styles. The media that have usually been classified in the West since the Renaissance as the decorative arts are extremely important in Chinese art, and much of the finest work was produced in large workshops or factories by essentially unknown artists, especially in Chinese ceramics . Much of the best work in ceramics, textiles, carved lacquer, and other techniques was produced over a long period by the various Imperial factories or workshops, which as well as being used by the court was distributed internally and abroad on a huge scale to demonstrate the wealth and power of the Emperors. In contrast, the tradition of ink wash painting, practiced mainly by scholar-officials and court painters especially of landscapes, flowers, and birds, developed aesthetic values depending on the individual imagination of and objective observation by the artist that are similar to those of the West, but long pre-dated their development there.