Late Neolithic -- Painted Pottery -- Pre-Qin Dynasty (Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties) -- Bronze Age -- Qin and Han Dynasties -- Pottery Sculpture, Brick/Stone Art -- Three Kingdoms, Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties -- The First Group of Famous Painters, Fresco, Buddhist Art -- Sui and Tang Dynasties -- Figure and Landscape Painting, Fresco, Craft Art -- Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty (Liao, Jin, Xixia) -- Scroll Painting, Porcelain -- Yuan Dynasty -- Literati Painting -- Ming Dynasty -- Literati Painting -- Qing Dynasty -- Literati Painting -- Modern Times -- A New Exploration of the Combination of the East and the West.

This book aims to provide readers with a clear and comprehensive picture of the development of Chinese art. Its main feature is the combination of illustration and text. It highlights representative works of art in the form of illustrations and discusses their styles, themes, and underlying artistic principles. In addition, each chapter of the book focuses on covering a specific period in Chinese art history, striving to capture representative artistic and stylistic features of the period and providing a preliminary analysis of the social, political, religious, and cultural factors behind its artistic phenomena.