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China. AIHE AIHE American Institute for Health EducationAIHE American Industrial Health Council WANG. Cosmology and political culture in early China. xiv+241pages, 17 figures, 10 tables. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). ; 0-521-62420-7 hardback 35 [pounds sterling] & US$54.95. HANNE SUTCLIFFE. Chinese ceramics Chinese ceramics is a form of fine art developed since the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed with the raw materials needed for making ceramics. The first types were made about 11,000 years ago, during the Palaeolithic era. at Lotherton Hall, Leeds. i+26pages, 4 figures, colour photographs. 1998. Leeds: Leeds Museums &Galleries; 0-901981-64-8 paperback. From the Shang period, to the heyday of the Han empire, argues DrWANG (p. 210), `cosmology and political power ... were mutuallyconstructive'. While, during the earlier period, knowledge &power were attributed to the king, knowledge later became `culturalcapital' for various factions, eventually to be `monopolized by thescholar-officials' (p. 212). Offering her work as a contribution to`deconstruction' of the mythic Chinese tradition, she reviews theevidence of urban planning and tombs as well as literary sources.Compare the picture review of Trees of paradise and, in the followingsection, EYRE. Chinese ceramics elegantly catalogues 57 pieces, from Neolithic toEastern Zhou, Han and later periods up to the 18th century. A brief textprovides general historical and technological background.