Chinese art

Side trip: Chinese art from Neolithic pottery and the Bronze Age via landscape painting, calligraphy and porcelain to contemporary art – a tradition as long as Europe's.

• The Neolithic: pottery and jade
• Shang and Zhou: the Bronze Age
• Qin and Han: the empire
• The Six Dynasties: Buddhism and calligraphy
• The Tang dynasty: the cosmopolitan golden age
• Song: landscape and porcelain
• Yuan: the Mongols and the scholars
• Ming: blue-and-white and the scholars' gardens
• Qing: individualists and imperial splendour
• Modern China