Table of Contents
Acknowledgement 6
Introduction 8
Map of China 16
PART ONE 18
1. The earliest saddle rugs: Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC), Warring States
(475-221 BC), Qin (221-207 BC) and Han periods (206 BC – 220 AD) 19
2. The Three Kingdoms up to and including the Sui periods (220-618) 29
3. The Tang (618-906), Five Dynasties (907-960) and Liao (947-1125) periods 34
4. The Northern and Southern Song (960-1127/1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) periods 43
5. The Ming period (1368-1644) 57
6. The Qing (1644-1911) and Republican (1912-1949) periods 72
PART TWO 90
1. Saddle Rugs from Ningxia 91
2. Saddle Rugs from Gansu 98
3. Saddle Rugs from Inner Mongolia 102
4. Saddle Rugs from Xinjiang 112
5. Saddle Rugs from Beijing? 117
6. Saddle Rugs from Tibet 120
Concluding Remarks 162
APPENDIXES 166
Technical Details 166
Glossary 172
Bibliography 177
Index 184