China
C. Debaine-Francfort, The Search for Ancient China (Gallimard/ Thames and Hudson, 1999); especially for the early period and quoting the ancient description of the mausoleum of Emperor Qin (pp.134-5)
W. Willetts, Chinese Art (Penguin 2 vols. 1958; abridged but fully illustrated reprint, T&H 1965); dated, but good on history, materials and techniques.
W. Watson, Style in the Arts of China (Penguin 1974)
W. Watson, The Arts of China to AD 900 (Pelican/Yale 1995)
M. Sullivan, The Arts of China (1973, but later eds. fuller)
J. Rawson (ed.), The British Museum Book of Chinese Art (British Museum 1992)
J. Rawson, Chinese Bronzes (British Museum 1987)
P. FitzGerald, Ancient China (1978)
M. Tregear, Chinese Art (T&H 1997)
S. Little et al., Taoism and the Arts of China (Chicago 2000)
Wen Fong (ed.), The Bronze Age Arts of China (New York Exhib. 1980)
P. Swann, The Art of China, Korea and Japan (T&H 1963)
E. Capon and W. Macquitty, Princes of Jade (1973)
G. Liu, Chinese Architecture (London 1989)
Fu Xinian et al., Chinese Architecture (Yale 2002)
J. Portal, Korean Art and Archaeology (British Museum 2000)
The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan (foreword J. Rawson; 1983)